Modern paper machines can produce two kilometers of packaging material every single minute

In the early 1800s, the Fourdrinier machine revolutionized the world by producing 400 meters of paper per minute, a speed that seemed impossible at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Today, the titans of European manufacturing have pushed that limit to two kilometers every sixty seconds. These massive assemblies are the backbone of the e-commerce era, churning out ten million tons of extra capacity to meet our growing reliance on home delivery and sustainable alternatives to plastic.