What is wallpaper made of?
Wallpaper takes paper, ink, paint and corn starch directly. Trace them back and you pass 32 made things on the way to 18 raw materials.
How wallpaper is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 18 raw materials
- Water through corn starch
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Corn through corn starch
- Timber through paper, wood pulp
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Crude oil through ink, carbon black
- Air through ink, carbon black
- Titanium ore through paint, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through paint, pigment
- Sulfur through paint, pigment
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through paint, titanium dioxide, chlorine
- Coal through paint, titanium dioxide, coke
- Natural gas through paint, acrylic, methanol
- Sugar beet through ink, ethanol, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 28 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 21
Carbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolCaustic sodaQuicklimeOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideHexanePhenolFormaldehydeChlorineSulfuric acidEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaMethanolHydrogenBenzeneNaphthaToluene