This is Champion

This 68-page publication titled This is Champion, created in 1959, tells the story of Champion Paper and Fibre Company in Hamilton, Ohio, Canton, North Carolina, and Pasadena, Texas. This publication also discusses the papermaking process and the people behind the company. Includes photographs.
~J if Champion This is the story of a vital American product ... of the men who make it possible ... of the people who produce it ... It is the story of the miraculous transforma­tion of trees into fine, strong, white paper which speeds the course of civilization. It is the story of The Champion Paper and Fibre Company. • Published by the Departmem of Public Relations in the imerest of increasing knowledge of the papermaking pro­cess. Copyright 1954, 1958, 1959, The Champion Paper and Fibre Company, Hamilton, Ohio. <11111111 Picture on the front cover shows Champions leaving the Texas Division 111ill at a shift change. It emphasi1es the philosophy that Champion's bigge\t competitive advantage is the skilled, loyal people who work here. Tall began with the birth of mod­ern civilization. Or, to put it more properly perhaps, modern civilization began with the birth of papermaking. The two are inseparable. Mankind learned to write (in a manner of speaking) many thousands of years ago. He used the things at hand: stones, flat bones, the walls of caves. In Egypt, two thousand years before the birth of Christ, he was using thin sections of a tough reed, papyrus, cemented together, to record his work. The British Museum today has an example thought to be more than 3000 years old. It is known as The Great Harris Papyrus and is in the form of a scroll 133 feet long by sixteen and three-quarters inches wide. Parchment and vellum made from the skins of anjmals, was probably used a thousand years and more before the beginning of the Christian Era, as were bamboo and silk. But it was not until the Divine Event in Bethlehem- more than a hundred years after- that paper as such was invented. This great discovery is generally credited to a Chinese court official, Ts'ai Lun. The year is lOS A.D. The paper which Ts'ai Lun presented to his Emperor was made from cellulose fibres by the same basic principles of maceration. hydration and mechanical matting which are used to this day. New i