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Paper Industry UPSC| Industry | Geography of India

Table of Contents:

  • Paper Industries
  • The raw material for paper Industries
  • Process for making paper
  • Location factors
  • Features of Paper Pulp Industry
  • Paper production by States 


What is Paper Industries?

Paper industries are forest-based industries that take wood or grass as input and produce paper for different usage.

The following are the raw materials for paper industries:

  • Bamboo
  • Softwood
  • Sugarcane residue
  • Grass
  • Wheat bran
  • Water

The following process involved in making a Paper:

  • Cut down of a tree
  • Transported to Pulp Mill
  • The wood of trees processed and converted to wood pulp
  • Wood pulp is mixed with chemical and changed into the paper by the machine

Location factors of Paper and Pulp Industry:

  • Paper and pulp industries are located near raw materials sources.

Ideal location in India:

  • Kolkata; raw materials from Northeastern states
  • Gujarat, Odisha, and Lucknow; 
  • Lucknow get raw materials from the Terai region

Characteristics of Paper pulp Industry;

  • It is a forest-based industry
  • Small scall industry 
  • Highly mechanized and need little labor but need electricity to run machines.
  • Paper and Pulp industries are also major water polluters industry.
Paper production by States or geographical distribution of paper Industry:
The following are the decreasing order of paper production.
  • Maharashtra
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Madhya Pradesh
  • Karnataka
  • Gujarat
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