AIR1-CT92-0071 EUROSORGHO: New Hybrid Plant - Fibre Sorghum - as a Component in Mixtures of Pulps Currently Used in the Paper Industry

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AIR Cluster XI - Non-Food Demonstration Projects : Crops for Paper/Pulp : Fibre : Paper/Pulp : Process Engineering : Pulping : Storage/Transport

	Contract No	AIR1-CT92-0071
	Total Cost	4 562 957
	EC Contribution	1 368 880
	Start Date	01/04/1993
	Duration	36 months

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OBJECTIVE:

The demand for paper is still considerably increasing world-wide, especially in Southern Europe. Research is being carried out in several countries in order to achieve applications of annual fibre crops in the pulping industry. Opportunities for fibre-sorghum exist as a component in mixtures of pulps currently used in the paper industry.

Fibre sorghum is a hybrid plant with a high yield and we aim to optimise harvesting, storage and depithing of this plant by the following methods:

• harvesting by ensiler machine or cane mower, before ripening
• storage after drying, quite easy with this imputrescible plant

• moist depithing where plant after wetting is passed through a hammer mill depither and fibres screened, set up in 1990, during the feasibility stage.

In this project environmentally friendly processes will be set up and operated at pilot scale:

• Bivis high yield chemico thermomechanical pulp sodium
• Carbonate oxygen process (NACO)
• Generating soda from lime carbonate process.

Packaging and printing-papers are the main products targeted.

It is a multidisciplinary approach gathering seed sellers, agricultural development centres and paper manufacturers. These last companies have pilot plants and research teams.

This project will be completed by a socio-economic assessment of the whole production chain.

Contacts

Coordinator

• Mr Jean-Paul JAMET / GEIE EUROSORGHO / FRANCE

EC Scientific Officer

• Mr Bernard Von Wullerstorff / Commission of the European Communities / BELGIUM