Bale Wrappers and Dirty Pulp
We generally purchase pulp in bales from pulp mills. These bales are wrapped in paper, very often sheets of the same pulp that the bale is made of. This is advantageous for commercial paper mills because they only have to remove strapping and dump the entire bale, wrapping and all, into their pulpers. On the other hand, we sell the pulp sheets and set the wrappers aside since they are often dirty, have stickers or labels on them, or are creased oversize sheets, none of which we can sell as clean pulp.
On the other hand, if you don’t mind some dirt, and a little work to peel off labels, this is perfectly usable pulp.
We offer these for sale at half the regular price of the clean pulp. However, it should be noted that we can’t always distinguish certain wrapper types, so we lump them together into more broad categories:
- Cotton Linters bale wrappers: Although these are pure white like the pulp itself they don’t feel the same as the pulp sheets so although they are cotton, they may not be the same fibre properties as the linters pulp.
- Abaca bale wrappers: These are clearly the same pulp as the bale contents, but bleached, unbleached, and premium bale wrappers are all lumped together.
- Other pulps: We’re not sure what else we have; there may be some hemp pulp and cotton rag, but we’d have to dig around to find these.
- Eucalyptus pulp: This is the only wood-based pulp we have. It is in clean sheets and could be used as blotters in a drying system, though the size should be verified, or pulped for papermaking if you don’t mind some tree pulp.
The bale wrappers are in random-weight bundles up to a couple of kilograms which we don’t want to break open, but if you tell us about how much you want we can find one or more bundles that comes to about the right weight.