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Kraft pulp mills, which have been around for decades, use highly caustic chemicals known as white liquor and high‑temperature, high-pressure industrial processes to turn wood into paper and other ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. — White liquor, a superheated chemical mixture used to break down wood into paper pulp, is at the center of the deadly tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave paper mill in Longview. The ...

LONGVIEW — As many as 11 people are dead, and a spill has contaminated the Columbia River in what Gov. Bob Ferguson called the deadliest industrial tragedy in modern Washington history." Two workers ...

More than 50 million tons of lignin are generated each year by the global pulp industry, yet only a small fraction is used in high-value products. At the same time, the wood-products industry still ...

Crews resumed the grim search Wednesday for nine people presumed killed at a Washington state paper mill where a chemical tank ruptured a day earlier in one of the deadliest U.S. workplace accidents ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. — Editor's note: The latest developments on the Longview plant disaster can be found here. At least one person is dead and multiple people remain missing after a tank of caustic ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Workers were killed, injured or missing after a hazardous liquid tank imploded at the Nippon Dynawave pulp and ...

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