Abstract
A comparison is made between the development trends experience over the
last decades by the steel and papermaking industries, respectively.
These two industrial branches, although totally different in their
technical nature, are subject to similar pressures from their external
environment, notably increasing requirements for environmental
protection and more efficient raw material management. Such new
dimensions of technical development may in fact require alternatives to
the familiar search for efficiency through “economy of scale” that has
prevailed virtually over the whole industrial era. It is suggested that
some of the structural changes that already have taken place in the
steel industry may serve as indicators for what might happen also in the
paper industry.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 173 - 183 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Resources, Conservation and Recycling |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- papermaking
- steelmaking
- megaplants
- mini-mills
- recycling
- resource management