The life-cycle of most pulp and paper products includes the same phases that many other products have; birth, rise, peak, decline and a quiet burial.Not so with dissolving pulp i.e. viscose pulp (or, with a wider end-use spectrum, the group of high-alpha pulps). That is a grade of pulp, or rather a family of pulps with high alpha-content, which are used in a multitude of end-uses and which are also produced in a number of different ways, as illustrated below.