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Financed by an offering of rights to common stockholders, Union Bag's new factory will employ nearly 1,000 persons directly, and another 500 indirectly in the nearby woods. However, the Savannah paper mill did not represent the long-promised birth of a Southern newsprint industry. Like many another paper mill in the South, the Union Bag plant will turn out coarse, dark kraft paper for bags and wrapping...
Nevertheless, the Union Bag project last week received the blessing of the Dearborn Conference of Agriculture, Industry & Science, a group organized last spring to promote the use of farm products in industry and now functioning as the Farm Chemurgic Council (TIME, May 20). The Council carefully called the public's attention to the works of Chemist Charles Holmes Herty, who has long dreamed of transferring the newsprint industry from the spruce forests of Canada to the pine woods of Georgia. For several years Chemist Herty experimented with the pine pulp on a $40,000 grant from his native State...
...sylvan visions of Chemist Herty & friends, Union Bag's new Savannah plant is hardly a symbol. Their piney economy turns on newsprint, which devours a forest for every tree that is used in kraft paper. With a capacity of 120 tons of paper per day, the bag plant will mash up only 70,000 cords of wood annually...
...Union Bag was originally not a maker of bags but of bag-making machinery, sold under license agreements. Up to the Civil War paper bags were improvised by wrapping old paper around one's arm and twisting the end like a cornucopia. Flat bags were developed in the 1860's and with them patented machinery for large-scale cutting and pasting. When it became evident that there was more money in making bags than bag machinery, Union Bag's predecessor merged with a group of companies operating under its licenses...
...Union Bag was severely deflated by the introduction of the kraft process, which is supposed to have been discovered by a Swedish workman who unwittingly treated pulp with an alkali instead of the usual acid. The result was called kraft-Swedish for "strength." Upshot was that Union Bag's sulphite pulp plants had to be scrapped. For five successive years, right through the gayest days of the Coolidge Boom, the company reported deficits. Then, having adjusted itself to the kraft order, Union Bag climbed out of the red in 1931, only to slip back the next dark year...