RE: MEN IN OVERALLS BUILT THIS COUNTRY21 Sep 2024 20:27
By 1954 the Caldercruix Paper Mills produced 8,635 tons of paper. It became the worlds’ largest maker of rag blotting paper. The rags were disinfected and steamed, ground together into pulp and processed into paper. The mills’ stone rag processing department dealt with 5,000 tons of rags a year and employed some 300 women out of the mills’ total labour force of between 550 and 600 workers.