The Zhytomyr Cardboard Plant continues to surprise with its developments in finding alternative sources of raw materials for its products. This time they actively supported the innovation of a young Ukrainian inventor Valentin Frechka, who offered making paper from fallen leaves.

In 2017, Valentin, then still an ordinary pupil of an ordinary school in Zakarpatia, developed a revolutionary technology that makes it possible to obtain cellulose from fallen leaves. A little later, he patented his development and founded the startup RE-leaf PAPER. And so, in October 2020, with the assistance of the Zhytomyr Cardboard Plant, the first industrial tests of this technology were carried out. As a result, 1.5 tons of paper with a density of 90 and 100 g / m2 and a thickness of 0.2 mm were obtained. The next step will be to make paper bags, dishes and cardboard from this paper. And the developers hope for the positive results that could revolutionize the paper industry.

This is not the first development of the ZhCP for the production of "alternative" cellulose. We’ll remind that at the end of 2019, the plant launched a whole line for the production of packaging for eggs from ordinary lawn grass. In addition, the research in obtaining cellulose from coffee pomace and miscanthus is done.

Materials from the website cardboard.com.ua, Facebook pages of the Zhytomyr Cardboard Plant, RE-leaf PAPER, Valentina Frechka were used.