White liquor, a superheated chemical mixture used to break down wood into paper pulp, is at the center of the deadly tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview. The facility employs ...
The chemical pulping process was discovered in the nineteenth century, and allowed wood to be pulped for strong, white, long-lasting paper. The goal of chemical pulping is to remove all the parts of ...
The massive tank failure this week at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging mill in Longview released hundreds of thousands of gallons of “white liquor,” a highly corrosive chemical that’s now contaminated ...
Several people were either hurt or killed in a rupture of a chemical tank at a pulp and paper plant in Washington state. [ Read more trending news ] Update 3:08 p.m. ET, May 27: A second person has ...