Carl Daniel Ekman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Daniel Ekman

Swedish engineer

Date of Birth: 17-Mar-1845

Place of Birth: Kalmar domkyrkoförsamling, Kalmar County, Sweden

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1904

Profession: inventor, chemical technologist, chemical engineer

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Carl Daniel Ekman (March 17, 1845 – November 3, 1904) was a Swedish chemical engineer who invented the form of the sulfite process of wood pulp manufacturing which was first established on a firm commercial basis, helping to replace rags as the main raw material of paper with wood pulp.
The process was developed at Bergvik, Sweden from 1871–1874, In 1879, he emigrated to England, and opened the Ekman Pulp and Paper Company mill in Northfleet, Kent near the mouth of the Thames River in 1886.
He was also a consulting engineer and helped establish mills in Lachendorf, Celle, Germany, Dieppe, France, Rumford, Rhode Island, St.
Petersburg, Russia, Korfu and Italy.
After contracting malaria in French Guiana and losing a lawsuit on pollution of a Northfleet limestone quarry, he died bankrupt in Gravesend, Kent.