Show MUCH COPPER IS CONSUMED BY PULP AND PAPER industries rieb more than pounds of copper are acre consumed yearly by the pulp and paper industries according to a survey just completed by the copper brass research association the large poundage of copper consumed cons umea yearly by these industries is used principally in alloy form in ill pounds of bronze and brass wire and pulp screens and pounds of bronze castings and bar stock st 0 ck pounds of sheet and rod brass pounds of brass tubing and 2240 pounds of brass and bronze rollers paper making apparatus of the fourdrinier type is is ably the largest Z heaviest and most costly single machine unit to be found in any manufacturing industry and probably embodies in its operating parts more copper and copper alloys than any other single machine unit approximately approximated y miles of single strand bronze wire I 1 enter into the screen used on an all average fourdrinier machine and the screens on the total number of these machines now in use in the count rys papermaking paper making industry contain approximately miles of bronze wire pulp is fed fe d over these screens into the compressing co in pressing rolls at ai tile the rate of to 1000 feet per minute if all tile the wire screens used in one year in in paper mak I 1 ing were combined into info a single screen it would cover in an area of bOO square feet or a space which would i ld contain r avera average 9 e size newspaper pages placed ace d s i de by side and end to end news newsprint pr V nt cepres represents e ants the barg largest e st 9 single I 1 i n industrial concu consumption of paper f |