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Special Report - Paper

aper has been around for developing military equipment,
ages: we all know that. during the course of which he
PAlthough the ancient saw the need for a cheap writing
Egyptian method of producing material, and saw how paper
TRAIL for writing (and of course gave of trees, hemp waste, old rags
PAPER papyrus created a useful material
could be made from the bark
us the original root of the word
and – improbably enough – fish
nets. In AD 105 he presented
‘paper’), it was not paper as we
his discovery to a delighted
know it. That was first produced
– it is claimed – by a court
eunuch called Cai Lun who Emperor.
But – nearly two thousand
BOSS Today looks at recent trends served under Emperor He of the years later – is paper now
reaching the end of its long
Doing Han dynasty. In AD 89 Cai
in the office paper market. was given the responsibility for road?

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