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I was process chemist at Ketchikan Pulp Company and the inventor of a chlorine-free bleaching sequence for dissolving pulp. Dissolving pulp is used to manufacture rayon. The pulp we made at KPC was world-renowned for its ability to be spun into very long rayon fibers because its impurity level was very low. The Feds under Clinton forced the shut-down of KPC citing all kinds of water quality violations (most of which were brought to the EPA by a whistle blower that was miffed because he was fired for falsifying documents - I was there and can vouch for that fact). Also Clinton and the greenies didn't want harvest on the Tongass (even though KPC contract area was a measly 500K acres of the 17 million acre forest).
We can make rayon in this country but we have shut down the remaining dissolving pulp manufacturers. We'd have to buy the raw material from overseas anyway.

Austria is home of Lenzing that is one of the premier rayon manufacturers in the world. They also have a world-class dissolving pulp mill in Lenzing