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Descriptive Essay Paper Making In order for a tree to be converted into the sheet of paper, like the one you are reading this essay on, it must go through many processes before the consumer receives the final product. Selected trees, which range from twenty to forty feet, are harvested with all of the tops and branches left in the woods. The logs are then transported to the mill on special trucks called, ironically enough, …

…into any desired widths or lengths, in our case, eight and a half by eleven inches. This machine then stacks the sheets into piles of five-hundred, wraps them in a vapor-resistant paper, and boxes them ten at a time. The boxes are then sent to the warehouse over a series of conveyors and placed on wood pallets to be shipped to the retailers where the consumer can purchase the final product, a ream of paper.