THE NEW $20 million pulp unit at Foley, Fla., isn't running full blast this week, but for Buckeye Cellulose it's doing two big things: It allows the Procter & Gamble subsidiary to keep one foot planted firmly in each of its two chief markets: kraft pulp and dissolving pulp. And it puts the company in position to handle expected market growth. The new plant doubles the capacity of Buckeye's five-year-old Foley mill to 200,000 tons a year of dissolving pulp or 266,000 tons of kraft pulp. (The mill squeezes a ton of dissolving pulp out of about 2.5 cords of Southern pine; a ton of kraft pulp, which isn't refined as much, takes about 1.8 cords.) Right now, production is running about two thirds dissolving pulp and one third kraft. Total capital investment—$50 million-at Foley has given Buckeye a firm grip on third place among North American producers of dissolving pulp. With its cotton linter ...

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.Buckeye Bolsters Pulp Position $20 million plant at Foley, Fla., readies company for growth expected in kraft pulp and dissolving pulp. 37 (20),26–28.

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"Buckeye Bolsters Pulp Position $20 million plant at Foley, Fla., readies company for growth expected in kraft pulp and dissolving pulp"