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How a Dutch Factory Turns Flower Waste into Paper and Packaging
Episode 58 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits a factory in the Netherlands that processes tulip and other flower waste into pulp for paper and packaging. Lucas and Luna walk through the economics: the factory diverts 15,000 tons of flower stems per year from incineration, replaces about 20 percent of virgin wood pulp in its output, and sells the paper at a premium to flower exporters who use it for their own packaging. The hosts discuss the technology — a modified pulping line that handles high-moisture biomass — and the business case: the waste costs negative money (farmers pay to have it…
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