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Pulp Yard
Virtually all raw material was imported pulp from mills in Canada and Scandinavia. During the war, recycled material was used but the equipment was not designed for this which limited the proportions.
Ships were unloaded in Rochester into lighters that were unloaded by overhead cranes.
There was a great deal of manual handling; bales were moved onto pulper conveyors by the "yard gang" whose other duties included other heavy lifting duties such as changing the heavy and fragile paper machine forming wires. '