The history of paper is also the history of human culture and 1CIVILISE. The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans wrote on “papyrus”, a paper-like material. Today’s kind of paper was first developed and used in China. Paper was the most important 2CARRY of information in the past. It was only with increasing paper production that the transfer of 3KNOW, education and information to a larger portion of 4SOCIAL became possible. With paper, emperors were able to administrate large empires more easily. In former times paper was a 5VALUE product, and paper-making an art – an art that was often kept secret because of the outstanding 6ADVANCE of the product. Today paper has changed from a rare artisan material to a commodity product, with a high practical value in communication, in 7EDUCATE, artistic, hygienic, sanitary, and technical applications. Nobody can imagine a world without paper. A large variety of paper grades are produced to suit the special 8REQUIRE of each application.