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  2. Units of paper quantity - Wikipedia

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    A quire of paper is a measure of paper quantity. The usual meaning is 25 sheets of the same size and quality: 1 ⁄ 20 of a ream of 500 sheets. Quires of 25 sheets are often used for machine-made paper, while quires of 24 sheets are often used for handmade or specialised paper of 480-sheet reams.

  3. Grammage - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 500-sheet ream of 20# 8 + 1 ⁄ 2-by-11-inch (216 by 279 mm) copy paper may be specified "10 M". 1000 cut sheets (or two reams) will weigh 10 lb (4.5 kg), half of the four reams of cut paper resulting from the 20# basis ream of 17-by-22-inch (432 by 559 mm) paper.

  4. Cubic ton - Wikipedia

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    One common such material is water, used in multiple units. For the cubic ton, the situation is more complex—there are different cubic tons for different materials. The 1964 Reader's Digest Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary gave the following ton-derived volumes: Timber, 40 cubic feet or 480.0 bd ft or 1.133 m 3; Stone, 16 cubic feet (0.453 m 3)

  5. Pulp and paper industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States is one of the biggest paper consumers in the world. Between 1990 and 2002, paper consumption in the United States increased from 84.9 million tons to 97.3 million tons. In 2006, there were approximately 450 paper mills in the United States, accounting for $68 billion. [1]

  6. Kraft process - Wikipedia

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    Digesters producing 1,000 tonnes or more of pulp per day are common, with the largest producing more than 3,500 tonnes per day. [8] Typically, delignification requires around two hours [ 9 ] at 170 to 176 °C (338 to 349 °F).

  7. Nine Dragons Paper Holdings Limited - Wikipedia

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    Today, the company employs over 15,000 employees globally with 9 manufacturing hubs. Notably, the company's Dongguan facility is the world's largest concentrated paper mill with 15 paper machines producing 5.25 million tonnes of products. Many of Nine Dragons' facilities are also supported with in-house power plants, ports, and trucking.

  8. Aluminum Can Prices: Are They Still Worth Collecting?

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    The average recycling value per pound of cans in the U.S. is currently $0.56. How many aluminum cans are in a pound? The exact number of cans per pound can't be quantified due to different ...

  9. Talk:Ricin - Wikipedia

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    The latter figure is supported by other sources, e.g., Röbbelen, Downey, and Ashri, _Oil Crops of the World_ (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1989). Assuming that we're not getting some 99 million tonnes from off-planet, is the Ricin article not simply wrong? RJ Spector, zombiejam@comcast.net, Feb. 4, 2004 Ton and metric ton (tonne) are not the same ...