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Handmade paper at BG is manufactured from a mixture of cotton rags, jute rags, waste paper and rayon silk waste. It is to be appreciated that any of the raw materials that is used in handmade paper manufacture is a waste of some form and requires careful preparation before being put to use.
The jute rags after cleaning and washing is cooked in a digester with caustic soda.
The rags are then beaten and refined in a valley beater in mixture
with other raw materials added in the required proportions. The beater man after evaluating the amount of refining decides to unload the batch when the pulp is eady for paper making. The refined pulp is bleached if required and dyed to the desired shades. The entire pulping process in a hand paper mill is a batch process.
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