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Wood Toothpick,Bamboo Toothpick,Plastic Toothpick

Katherine / 15 Feb,2017
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Toothpicks are common seen and used in our daily life. Traditionally, toothpicks are made of wood. Today, due to the promotion of environmental awareness, toothpicks manufacturers gradually without wood to make a toothpick, but the use of some edible or biodegradable materials to produce. Plastic such as starch and the like. Some Chinese toothpick is made of bamboo. Chinese imperial past used a toothpick and some even ivory. Toothpicks and toothpick packaging is also some special preferences collectors. In addition, the toothpick often used in Asia than in Europe used to be tapering.
America's first toothpick making machine patent was February 20, 1872 by the City of Granville, Massachusetts inventor Silas Noble and J. P. Cooley of the successful applicants. The US state of Maine claimed to be king of the world's manufacturing capital toothpick, claiming 90 percent of the world's toothpicks are produced in Maine (annual production of about fifty billion toothpicks, making Maine people have nicknamed "eat guest (Down-Eaters) "is called. in addition, Americans also toothpick esophagus choking one of the main items.
Today, due to the promotion of environmental awareness, toothpicks manufacturers gradually without wood to make a toothpick.
How to Make Toothpicks?
Toothpick is a major gap for expelling foreign matter packed oral hygiene products, because of its small size, and the material is usually made of bamboo or tough wood, metal, etc., is generally a wide one or two are sharp pointed the stick-like object, and it can easily be processed or burned up, so that its position is so neglected that history has left none who invented the toothpick record. Fortunately, Chinese archaeologists unearthed gold or precious materials toothpick. While this toothpick belongs only to a handful of people, but enough to prove in the 3rd century AD China, has a toothpick oral hygiene tools that we used.
According to market demand, Gelgoog Company manufactured Bamboo Toothpick Production Line and Wooden Toothpick Prodcution Line, from processing the raw material to the finshed toothpicks.
The finished products is with diameter 2.2mm and length 65 mm, a head of a hand-cut wooden toothpicks, 8 hours of production in 500000, machinery operators for 4 ~ 6. Industrial electric power with 380 v, the normal production of the actual power consumption per hour around 12 degrees.Increase the LG - 641 machine 5, the output 3 million cigarettes.Usually each cubic meters of wood, it can produce diameter 2.2 x 65 mm specifications of the wooden toothpick by soaking wood hardwood of different material, 150 ~ 200 kg.