Reply To: Empire Paper Mills (Greenhithe)

Empire Mills Calendar for 1979

Courtesy of Jean Stirk

Calendar, with cover, has seven A3 pages  well illustrated with supporting text. Most pages have a microphotograph, including  loose paper fibres, paper surface, starch granules, printed surface and coloured paper cross-sections.

These were supplied by the Reed Engineering and Development Microscopy Department, based in Aylesford, who provided the service for the Reed Group and many outside customers.

A few pictures of mill – pulp in pulper; size press; beta-gauge head near calender, illustrating the use of computers for substance and moisture control which was not universal at that time, and paper in warehouse.