The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...

Toilet paper gets its softness from virgin pine pulp. You can check the labeling to ensure it was sustainably sourced. Commercial forests are critical to the paper products industry, and likewise ...

The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...

Nanocellulose and lignin, derived from wood fibers, are on the verge of becoming available in larger commercial quantities, bringing the possibility of replacing a range of oil-based products with ...

Gluten-free dieting is all the rage, and alternatives to gluten products are getting more and more creative. Case in point? This new type of noodle they’re making in Japan. It’s gluten-free, fat-free, ...

A month after Natron Energy began its first-of-kind sodium-ion battery mass production, Swedish sodium-ion developer Altris has identified a means of making the lithium-free batteries even more ...

This search has led a team of researchers to an unlikely candidate—the humble carob pulp, a neglected food by-product. Their ...

E.J. Harris / East Oregonian A company in Eastern Washington is developing a new way to make paper pulp — without trees. The mill will instead use a source abundant to the area: straw. Farmers used to ...

DAYTON, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Columbia Pulp, LLC, North America’s first tree-free pulp mill, announced Monday the appointment of Mike Schock as Vice President of the company and Tony Waldo as ...