What kind of trees are used for making pulp and paper ?
The pulp and paper making industry uses both hard and soft wood. These are birch and aspen, grown in temperate climates and eucalyptus grown in the warmer climate of Portugal, Spain and South America. Softwood, i.e. primarily pine and spruce, give the longer fibres that are needed to give paper strength. Hardwood fibres are about much shorter, but give excellent important properties especially to printing and writing papers. In case you have questions about paper to which you did not find the answer, please contact us. We will try to find the answer for you.
