Abstract
Kraft-pulping tests were made on some samples of three soft-wood and two hard-wood species in Guatemala which were obtained in connection with the survey tour there by our staff members 1969.
Generally speaking, they were cooked as easily as the corresponding species in Japan. The resultant unbleached kraft-pulps from the soft-woods showed somewhat higher burst factor and percentage stretch but a little lower tear resistance and ring-crush factor than those from Japanese pine. The strength properties for the hard-wood pulps were roughly equal or slightly inferior to those for the typical Japanese hard-woods.
