Paper manufacturing by hand: Creating the paper
This is the machine into which the mass is gathered and then becomes paper. There is approximately 98% water and 2% papermass,…
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Paper manufacturing by hand: the “Dutch”
The second step in the manufacturing is placing the fiber in a machine simply called the Dutch – since it was invented…
Paper manufacturing by hand: Shredder
The first step of manufacturing paper by hand is destroying the materials, in this case cotton in the shape of old linen…
Plastic Industry (8): Coffee machine
This is the sound of a coffee machine that is quite normal in Swedish industry and other workplaces. Except black coffee it…
Plastic Industry (7): Loading dock
This is the sound of the door opening to the loading dock and then the raise- and expandable floor at the outside…
Plastic Industry (6): Automated Warehouse door
This is an automated door that separates the warehouse from the factory floor. In the warehouse it is often dead quiet but…
Plastic Industry (5): Tearing machine
This is a machine that takes squares of plastic that has already been produced and then tears out the plastic piping bags…
Plastic Industry (4): Pallet packer
This is a rotating floor upon which the worked places a fully loaded pallet. On the right side is a roll of…
Plastic Industry (3): Sucking the raw material
This is the sound of a machine that is connected to a large metal tube; the raw material that is heated and…
Plastic Industry (2): Welding the plastic
This is the sound of a machine that is part of the overall assembly line where the disposable plastic piping bags comes…
Plastic Industry (1): Overall Soundscape
This is the overall soundscape of a modern small-scale factory that produces disposable plastic piping bags. The soundscape vary heavily depending on…