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Modern papermaking machines are based on the principles of the Fourdrinier Machine, which uses a specially woven plastic fabric mesh conveyor belt in the forming section, where a slurry of fibre is drained to create a continuous paper web. Paper machines have four distinct operational sections: 1) forming section (wet end); slurry of fibres filters out fluid a continuous fabric loop to form a wet web of fibre, 2) press section; fibre passes between large rolls loaded under high pressure to squeeze out as much water as possible, 3) drying section; pressed sheet passes through a series of steam heated drying cylinders, and 4) calender section; dried paper is smoothened under high loading and pressure. Only one nip (where the sheet is pressed between two rolls) is necessary in order to hold the sheet, which shrinks through the drying section and is held in tension between the press section and the calender. Extra nips give more smoothing but at some

Local Culture and Global Paper–Update

The paper supply chain turmoil has come for Local Culture. Once the order of paper arrives, the magazines will be printed and mailed to subscribers. They are hoping a new shipment arrives…
Jeffrey Bilbro
Jeffrey Bilbro
March 14, 2022

The paper supply chain turmoil has come for Local Culture. Once the order of paper arrives, the magazines will be printed and mailed to subscribers. They are hoping a new shipment arrives next week, but apparently lots of large printers are now stockpiling paper, which means there is less for the little guy. That would include us.

Update: Our intrepid printer was able to find a different source, and copies are flying off the printer now as I type. They should begin going in the mail tomorrow. Apologies for the false alarm.

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A stack of three Local Culture journals and the book 'Localism in the Mass Age'
Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro

Jeffrey Bilbro is a Professor of English at Grove City College. He grew up in the mountainous state of Washington and earned his B.A. in Writing and Literature from George Fox University in Oregon and his Ph.D. in English from Baylor University. His books include Words for Conviviality: Media Technologies and Practices of Hope, Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News, Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature, Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (written with Jack Baker), and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms.

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