Correction: Double A’s Khan-Na trees are not!

Bit of an odd title, but it just goes to show the mess one can get into by not researching a press release more fully. Shame on me!

When extolling the virtues of Double A Paper using Khan-Na trees to make paper,(see earlier blog entitled “Oh the times they are a changin'”)  it transpires I was only partially correct. It’s the areas of land between the rice fields that are known as ‘Khan-Na’, the trees themselves appear to be Eucalyptus, though none the worse for that.

I still maintain that Double A should be applauded, especially as the trees regenerate themselves after three consecutive harvesting’s, and only take four years to reach usable size (for pulp/paper-making).

Double A’s website:  csr.doubleapaper.com  estimates that the 100 million trees in their three year cycle scheme “,,,have reduced 6539 million tons of CO2 in the atmosphere” and that a ream of their A4 paper reduces 12.5kg of carbon-dioxide.

I am no mathematician, and no-one has yet to convince me about carbon offsetting, but Double A’s figures are well verified and certainly impressive.

Sadly, if they import their trees into France to make their famous virgin fibre papers in their newly acquired Alizay mill, the whole equation falls to pieces, so it will be interesting to see what the USP will be in a market already flooded with office and printing papers.