China has a long history of using bamboo fibre to make paper, which is recorded as having a history of more than 1,700 years. At that time has begun to use young bamboo, after the lime marinade, the manufacture of cultural paper. Bamboo paper and leather paper are the two major categories of Chinese handmade paper. Later, paper-making technology was gradually spread abroad in the Tang Dynasty, and modern pulp and paper production began in the 19th century, and was later introduced to China. Raw materials for paper making are expanded from bast fibre to grass, and then developed into wood and so on.
China is a large agricultural country, low forest cover, therefore, for many years to wheat straw, rice straw, reeds and other fast-growing plant fibres as raw materials for papermaking, even in the late twentieth century, this type of raw material production of household paper products is still the mainstay of the Chinese market. The use of such raw materials for the production of household paper, mainly to achieve easy access to materials, equipment requirements are not high. However, this kind of raw material fibre is short, easy to bleach, impurities, and sewage treatment is difficult, low product quality, economic benefits are also poor. In the past many years, the people's consumption level is low, the material is extremely underdeveloped, society as a whole is in the era of economic development and light environmental protection, to wheat straw, rice straw, reeds as raw materials for this kind of paper-making enterprises still have a certain market and social space for survival.
Into the twenty-first century, China's economy has entered a channel of rapid development, people's living standards and the home environment has been unprecedented development, with wood as raw material for household paper paper equipment and technology to enter the Chinese market in full, especially wood pulping rate is high, less impurities, high whiteness, finished product strength; but the manufacture of pulp and paper consume a huge amount of wood is not conducive to the protection of the environment.
China is a relatively small area of forests, timber resources are also relatively lack of countries, but China's bamboo resources are very rich, China is one of the few countries in the world producing bamboo, so the bamboo forest in China is known as the ‘second forest’. China's bamboo forest area ranks second in the world, bamboo forest production ranks first in the world.
Wood fiber household paper can reign supreme, naturally have their advantages, but the advantages of bamboo fibre products are also very obvious.
First, health. Bamboo fibre has a natural antibacterial, antimicrobial and antiseptic effect, because bamboo has a unique substance inside - bamboo kun. Observed under the microscope, bacteria can reproduce in large numbers on top of non-bamboo fibre, while bacteria not only can't reproduce on bamboo fibre products, but also reduce them, and the bacterial mortality rate can reach more than 75% within 24 hours, so the household paper products produced by bamboo fibre can remain safe and healthy even if they are exposed to the air for a long time.
Second, comfort. Bamboo fibre fibre is relatively fine, breathable cotton 3.5 times, known as the ‘breathing fibre queen’, so bamboo fibre production of household paper has a very good breathability and comfort.
Third, environmental protection. Bamboo is a regenerative plant, with strong reproductive capacity, short growth cycle, excellent material and other characteristics, coupled with China's timber resources in the gradual decline of people want to use some other materials to replace the diminishing timber, so bamboo resources have been widely used. Both to meet the needs of socio-economic development and people's material and cultural life, but also for China's rich bamboo material has opened up a broad prospect of use. Therefore, a large number of bamboo fibre in the household paper industry, China's ecological environment is also a good protection measures.
The last is scarcity: for China is rich in bamboo forest resources, occupying 24% of the world, so there is the world bamboo in Asia, Asia bamboo in China said, so the value of bamboo resources to play on China's bamboo resources have a huge economic value.
Post time: Sep-05-2024
