CELLULOSE CHEMISTS ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION , BADEN-BADEN 1997 - CELLULOSE - A SUSTAINABLE CHEMICAL RAW-MATERIAL

In many fields of industrial use (e.g, as fibres, films, additives) di ssolving pulp is competing synthetic polymers. Only app. 4 millions me tric tons of the annual ''production'' of some billions of cellulose p roduced by nature is presently used for making chemical products. A wi despread effort to use cellulose increasingly as a chemical raw materi al is the background of this years ''Cellulose Chemists Round Table Di scussion (Cellulose-Chemiker-Rundgesprach)'' at Baden-Baden. Seven pap ers were dedicated among others to aspects of availability, pulp quali ty, improving reactivity, optimisation of production processes, and us e of side products. The complete text of these seven papers follows.