Talk:Dissolving pulp

low yield (30 - 35%) bleached chemical wood pulp

What does "low yield" refer to, and what is the 30-35% rate? AxelBoldt (talk) 15:54, 30 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yield is how much pulp a mill/process gets out of the pulpwood: Mechanical pulps have near 100 % yield, TMP about 95 %, CTMP round 80 - 90 %. Chemical pulps have about 30 - 50 % depending on what the pulp is intended for. Langbein Rise (talk) 07:48, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I added this to the article; please feel free to change my layman's explanation. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 15:47, 31 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]