Equipment for manufacturing a fiber structure in the present disclosure includes: a defibrator configured to pulverize and defibrate a fiber material containing fibers; a transport pipe through which a defibrated material defibrated by the defibrator is transported; a melting-material mixing section configured to mix a melting material into the defibrated material transported through the transport pipe; a fibrous-web forming machine configured to accumulate the defibrated material in which the melting material is mixed and form a fibrous web; a sheet supply section configured to supply a shape-maintaining sheet to the fibrous web; and a heating-and-compression mechanism configured to compress the shape-maintaining sheet and the fibrous web between planar plates and heat the shape-maintaining sheet and the fibrous web to a temperature equal to or higher than a temperature at which the melting material softens.

An accommodating body includes: a first accommodating body that has a first bottom portion; and a first buffering material that has a first pressure receiving surface coming into contact with an accommodated article accommodated in the first accommodating body and that has at least one first sheet-shaped web that contains fibers and a bonding material that bonds the fibers, and in which in the first sheet-shaped web, the fibers are oriented in a plane direction of the first sheet-shaped web, and the first buffering material is used in an orientation with which an end surface of the first sheet-shaped web serves as the first pressure receiving surface.

An additive container is configured to contain an additive to be added to a defibrated material therein and to be coupled to an intake port for introducing the additive of an additive supply device. The additive container includes a container that includes a discharge port and contains the additive, and a first shutter member that opens and closes the discharge port. The first shutter member enters an open state by rotating the container in a first direction around a central axis of the discharge port with respect to the first shutter member, and the first shutter member enters a closed state by rotating the container in a second direction opposite to the first direction with respect to the first shutter member from the open state.

A sheet manufacturing system includes a processing section configured to process a raw material including a fiber, a detection section configured to detect a state of the raw material, a determination section configured to determine, based on a detection result of the detection section and a preset criterion of a raw material state, whether the raw material is suitable for processing in the processing section, a supply section configured to supply, to the processing section, the raw material determined to be suitable for the processing by the determination section, a reception section configured to acquire operation information indicating an occurrence state of an operation hindrance in the processing section, and a setting section configured to set the criterion based on the operation information.

A fibrous body accumulating device includes: a drum having an opening for releasing a material containing fibers and rotating around a central axis; and a first dispersion member disposed in the drum and at a position unevenly distributed vertically below the central axis, and dispersing the material in the drum. Preferably, the fibrous body accumulating device further includes a second dispersion member disposed in the drum and at a position unevenly distributed vertically above the central axis, and dispersing the material in the drum.

A fibrous body accumulating device includes: a drum having an opening for releasing a material containing fibers and rotating around a central axis; and a first dispersion member disposed in the drum, extending in a direction along the central axis, and dispersing the material in the drum, in which the first dispersion member has a first portion having the material with a high dispersion ability and a second portion having the material with a lower dispersion ability than the first portion, the first portion and the second portion being disposed at different positions in a direction along the central axis.

A sheet manufacturing system includes a sheet manufacturing apparatus that decomposes a document, and a server apparatus that manages a process status of the document, in which the sheet manufacturing apparatus includes a read unit that reads identification information attached to the document, a processing unit that decomposes the document the identification information of which was read by the read unit and that is determined to be suitable for a decomposing process, a determination unit that determines that the document was decomposed by the processing unit, and a first communication unit that transmits to the server apparatus the identification information of the document determined by the determination unit to have been decomposed by the processing unit.

A fiber-formed body producing raw material contains fibers and a binder for binding the fibers, wherein the fiber-formed body producing raw material is nongranular, and 1.0≤A/B≤9.0, wherein A is a weight of the fibers in the fiber-formed body producing raw material and B is a weight of the binder in the fiber-formed body producing raw material.

A composite of the present disclosure, which is used as a raw material for dry molding, includes a cellulose fiber, and a starch, in which at least a part of the starch is fused to the cellulose fiber, and a content of the starch is 30.0% by mass or more and 50.0% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the composite.

A composite of the present disclosure contains a fiber and a thermoplastic starch fused to the fiber. A method for producing a molded product of the present disclosure includes a molding raw material preparing step of preparing a molding raw material containing a fiber and a thermoplastic starch, and a molding step of molding the molding raw material into a predetermined shape by heating and pressurizing the molding raw material.