Paper mill

A paper mill is a commercial company for the manufacture of paper.

History

About Arab traders arrived in the 13th century paper to Italy. As a result, the first European papermakers center formed in the middle of this century out in the central Italian Fabriano. From there were significant improvements in the sequence for the manufacture of paper, such as the wasserradgetriebene tamping station for the raw material, paper sizing to animal raw materials, and the invention of the suction screen made ​​of metal wire.

The first German paper mill ( paper making workshop ) was taken in 1390 by the Nuremberg trade Mr. Ulman Stromer ( 1329-1407 ) in operation. He had 1389/90 can remodel an old grain mill that Gleismühl an der Pegnitz near Nuremberg, to a paper mill, which worked with water wheel. As woodcut she finds herself on a representation of the city of Nuremberg in Hartmann Schedel's World Chronicle of 1493rd Today, there are various places and streets of the name paper mill.

Operation and principle

The principle of the paper-making in Europe is based since the High Middle Ages that the papermaker absiebte from the vat with the Deckle seven thin layers of thin liquid pulp and this is then pressed, glued and were dried. With the advent of paper mills could through this from now on the raw materials, rags and paper, are mechanically crushed and stirred by hydropower. After sufficient deposition of the now almost finished pieces of paper were pressed into a stamp gear with hammer dishes.

Problems for humans and nature

Papermaking with rags posed a great burden on the environment, as was incurred much dirty water by washing the rags, which was returned to the water. Also often arose among the workers by dealing with the raw materials of papermaking injury.

Look facilities, museums

  • Paper Museum Old Dombach
  • Paper Museum
  • Foundation Zanders
  • Basel Paper Mill
  • Paper mill Homburg (market Triefenstein )
  • Paper mill Plöger ( Schieder- Schwalenberg )
  • Paper mill Zwoenitz ( Zwoenitz )
  • Paper Museum in Duszniki -Zdrój ( Duszniki-Zdrój/Bad Reinerz ) in Poland
  • Look conditioning Neumann - mill, Kirnitzschtal - Saxon Switzerland
  • Museo della Carta, in the Valle delle Cartiere, Toscolano -Maderno, Italy
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