A raw material supply device includes a housing that stores an aggregate of small pieces, a discharge port through which the small pieces are discharged from an inside of the housing, a rotor provided in the housing and including a protruding portion, and a magnet provided on the discharge port or on a downstream side of the discharge port. In addition, it is preferable that the raw material supply device further include a passage route that communicates with the discharge port and through which the small pieces pass, in which at least one pair of the magnets is disposed on one side and the other side via the passage route.

Provided is a processing device which includes a fluffing section for fluffing fibers contained in a sheet-like material, the fibers being at least near a surface of the sheet-like material, and a particle supplying section for supplying particles having Mohs hardness of 2 to 5 to the fluffed fibers. In addition, in such processing device, the particle supplying section preferably has an ejecting portion for ejecting the particles.

Disclosed herein are methods for producing a pulp or paper product from a plant material having bast and hurd fibers, such as a cannabis plant material. For example, there is method for producing a pulp or paper product from a plant material having bast and hurd fibers, the method comprising processing of a plant hurd fiber material into a hurd fiber pulp or pulp slurry in a first stream; processing of a plant bast fiber material into a bast fiber pulp or pulp slurry in a second stream; blending of the hurd fiber pulp or pulp slurry and the bast fiber pulp or pulp slurry to provide a blended pulp or pulp slurry; and producing the pulp or the paper product from the blended pulp or pulp slurry. Also provided are pulp and paper products produced from such methods. Also provided are cannabis pulp and paper products.

A sheet manufacturing apparatus capable of suppressing adhesion of defibrated material to the inside of the apparatus is provided. A sheet manufacturing apparatus has a defibrating unit that defibrates into defibrated material feedstock containing fiber; mesh that captures at least part of the defibrated material conveyed from the defibrating unit by gas, and passes the gas; an opening to which the defibrated material captured by the mesh, and gas of a different state than the gas from the defibrating unit, are introduced; and a sheet forming unit that forms a sheet using the defibrated material introduced from the opening.

The present invention relates to methods for processing plant and/or micro-organism derived cellulose materials into rheology/structuring agents. More in particular, the present invention relates to methods wherein plant and/or micro-organism derived cellulose material is co-processed with carboxycellulose. The methods of the present invention provide a variety of benefits, in terms of process efficiency and scalability as well as in relation to the properties of the materials that are obtainable using these methods. For instance, it has been found that (highly) concentrated products produced using the method of the invention are easily (re)dispersible in water and aqueous systems to regain much of the cellulose component's original rheological performance.

A fibrous material reprocessing apparatus separates a cellulose pulp material into a fibrous material stream and a remainder stream. The fibrous material stream is treated in a grinder to reduce the size of the fibrous material. The reduced size fibrous material is then recombined with the remainder stream.

A separation device includes: a material supply section that supplies a material containing a fiber; a defibrating section that defibrates the material supplied from the material supply section; a separation section that includes a rotating member, a suction portion, and a collection section, the rotating member having a first surface and a second surface that are in a front and back relationship, being at least partially composed of a mesh, and to which a defibrated material generated in the defibrating section is supplied onto the first surface, the suction portion being provided on a side of the second surface of the rotating member and sucking the defibrated material via the mesh to remove foreign matter, the collection section collecting the defibrated material from which the foreign matter on the first surface has been removed; a weight detection section that detects a weight of the material supplied by the material supply section; and a controller that controls an operation of the separation section based on a detection result of the weight detection section.

Disclosed herein are methods for producing a pulp or paper product from a plant material having bast and hurd fibers, such as a cannabis plant material. For example, there is method for producing a pulp or paper product from a plant material having bast and hurd fibers, the method comprising processing of a plant hurd fiber material into a hurd fiber pulp or pulp slurry in a first stream; processing of a plant bast fiber material into a bast fiber pulp or pulp slurry in a second stream; blending of the hurd fiber pulp or pulp slurry and the bast fiber pulp or pulp slurry to provide a blended pulp or pulp slurry; and producing the pulp or the paper product from the blended pulp or pulp slurry. Also provided are pulp and paper products produced from such methods. Also provided are cannabis pulp and paper products.