Why it matters to materials
Pulp and paper is a different business from lumber at every point. It wants small, uniform, fast-grown fibre rather than large clean logs, it is capital-intensive and runs continuously, and its cheapest input is often recovered fibre rather than wood at all - which links waste-paper policy directly to roundwood demand.
What it is made of
All materials →| Material | What it does here | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Eucalyptus | Short-fibre hardwood pulp, grown for the purpose | Defining |
| Industrial Roundwood | Pulpwood: the logs too small or bent to saw | Defining |
| Wood Pulp | The fibre itself | Defining |
| Radiata Pine | Plantation pulpwood in the southern hemisphere | Important |
| Recovered Wood | Competing cheap fibre for board | Important |
| Spruce-Pine-Fir (SPF) | Long-fibre softwood pulp for strength | Important |
Eucalyptus
The fastest-growing hardwood planted at scale, harvested on rotations as short as six or seven years, and the fibre…
Industrial Roundwood
Logs. The tree after felling and before anything has been done to it except cutting it to length.
Wood Pulp
Wood reduced to its individual fibres, by cooking or by grinding, ready to be made into paper, board or textile.
Radiata Pine
A Californian pine with a tiny natural range that became the most widely planted plantation softwood in the southern…
Recovered Wood
Wood collected after use - pallets, crates, demolition timber and furniture - and sent back into panels or energy…
Spruce-Pine-Fir (SPF)
A marketing group, not a species: several interchangeable northern softwoods graded and sold under one stamp.