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Forestry Research
Boosting the forest economy's ability to compete on a sustainable basis, by developing genetic materials and forestry techniques that help increase yields and improve the properties of the wood produced, all at lower costs and with less environmental impact.
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Eucalyptus Globulus plants are grown at the Group's nurseries
Eucalyptus saplings are tended and then transported for planting
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12 years life
cycle
Sustainable Management
The Navigator Company manages forests covering around 120 thousand hectares and follows a policy of sustainable management.Saplings are grown at Viveiros Aliança, the Group's nurseries, where the main species produced is Eucalyptus Globulus.
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Forestry
Logging
Delivering the Wood
The wood is delivered to the The Navigator Company's industrial units.+
Biomass
Preparing the wood
The bark is stripped from the logs which are then processed into chips of a standard size.
Wood chips
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Pulp Manufacture
The next stage in the process of preparing the wood consists of cooking it, to separate the cellulose fibres from the lignin. The result is a brownish-coloured raw pulp.
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Cooking wood in the digester
Recovering chemicals and energy
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Bleaching the pulp
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Raw and bleached pulp
Dry pulp
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Dry Pulp Sector
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Pulp in liquid form: slurry piped to paper mill
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Paper Manufacture
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Processing the Bleached Pulp
Pulp is processed by the machinery into sheets of paper over
three distinct phases:
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Wet End
The wet pulp is processed into continuous sheets.Pre-Dryer
Water is extracted by pressing.
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Post-Dryer
Moisture is evaporated by using heat.
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60min
Jumbo Reel
The paper is wound on the reeler into jumbo reels. It takes around 60 minutes to produce one jumbo roll of paper weighing 80 tons.+
Processing the Paper
Reamer
The paper is sorted into stacks of 500 sheets: these are called “reams”.
Ream Wrapping
Reams are wrapped, packaged and then palletised.
Dispatch
The Group's products are dispatched by road, sea or rail. We export to 123 countries around the globe. Learn more +
Derived from a renewable raw material: wood.
White pulp (made up of cellulose fibres) can be delivered to the paper mills in two ways:
Interesting facts about paper manufacture