The first piece of paper as we know it was produced from rags in AD 105 by Ts'ai Luin, who was part of the Eastern Han Court of the Chinese Emperor Ho Ti.
Paper is made from cellulose fiber, the source of which can be pulped wood, or a variety of other materials such as rags, cotton, grasses (Bamboo) cane, straw, waste paper, or even elephant dung!
The demand for upstream market of paper products, like, tissue paper, tea bags, filter paper, light weight online coated paper, medical grade coated paper, etc., is growing up. These developments are expected to give fillip to the industry.
Paper industry needs the following for being globally more competitive.
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Sustained availability of good quality of raw materials (forest based) and bulk import of waste paper to supplement the availability of raw materials. |
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Adequate modernization of the manufacturing assets. |
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Improvement of the infrastructure. |
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Quality improvements and reduction in cost of production |
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Import policy conducive for import of material, equipment, instruments, raw materials & technologies which are bearing of the quality and environment. |
Manufacture of paper from wood involves .
Pulping of wood (preferably from softwood with 3 - 5 mm long fibers, but rarely from hardwood with 1.5 mm long fibers) requires separation of the wood fibers from each other, which are then reformed into a sheet.
The wood fibers are glued together with the help of lignin and separation of these fibres is described as chemical pulping, when lignin is removed by degradation and is described as mechanical pulping, when fibres are mechanically teared apart. Both these methods of pulping are used.
Mechnical pulping gives higher yields and is cheap, but the quality of paper produced is relatively poor, turning yellow on exposure to sunlight. Further, the mechanical pulping requires lot of electrical energy. These difficulties can be overcome through the use of biotechnology.
The chemical pulp is also subjected to bleaching, in order to remove residual lignin leading to satisfactory increase in the brightness of paper. This bleaching step creates numerous toxic derivatives of lignin that constitutes environment hazard.
ERP for Pulps & Paper Industry
The objective is to have an integrated and secure software solution for
Pulp and paper industry has a very distinct feature that its raw material can not be stored for long duration. Thus its production process, inventory management and other functions should be very well planned and managed as there is always a very tight schedule for entire process cycle.
The scope for this customized ERP solution comprised of master data setup, voucher activity, books, budgeting accounts receivable, account payables, general ledger, trial balance, balance sheet, payroll with time office management, raw material purchase, resource indent, purchase requirement analysis, selection of vendor, rate contract, purchase order, inventory management, production planning & control and various report generation.
