Scientists and technicians of the Paper Engineering Institute of the State Academy of Sciences and the Sinuiju Chemical Fibre Mill have intensified their research into the production of quality paper with reed pulp.

They designed equipment and devices according to processes and settled technical problems arising in their manufacture, assembling and installation, thus providing a foundation to mass-produce quality paper with reed pulp.

Paper made with reed pulp is superior in quality characteristic indexes like smoothness, whiteness and surface strength and in printing.

Reed is produced in Sindo County, called Pidan Island, of North Phyongan Province.

Last year the county produced 10 tons of reed per hectare in thousands of hectares of fields, 18 tons to the maximum.

When visiting the Sinuiju Chemical Fiber Mill in Juche 107 (2018), Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un stressed the need to upgrade the paper industry in reliance on the domestic resources and raw materials and thus sufficiently supply the paper necessary for the production of textbooks, reference books and notebooks for schoolers. He also said that a modern paper production process should be established with reed as raw material by boosting the reed production on Pidan Island.