Fiber blend having high yield and enhanced pulp performance and method for making same

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 10060075
APP PUB NO 20150211184A1
SERIAL NO

14679556

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The present disclosure relates to producing paper or paperboard having improved stiffness and strength, compared to the conventional paperboard at the same basis weight. It also discloses a method of wood pulping having a significantly increased yield and providing fiber pulps with enhanced properties such as strength and stiffness. Wood chips are chemically pulped to a high kappa number, providing a rejects component and an accepts component. The rejects component is subjected to a substantially mechanical pulping process, optionally in a presence of bleaching agent, prior to blending back into the accepts component. The resulting fiber blend is washed, optionally bleached, and subjected to a papermaking process to provide paper or paperboard with enhanced strength and stiffness at low basis weight.

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WESTROCK MWV LLC501 SOUTH 5TH STREET RICHMOND VA 23219

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Bradberry, Jared Hampden, US 4 10
Hart, Peter W Atlanta, US 11 48
Nutter,, Jr Dale E Clayton, US 3 8
Waite, Darrell M Bangor, US 10 96

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