lignocellulosic pulp bales there have been prior art methods have attempted to size reduce such bales for other applications such as sanitary napkins and diaper manufacturing examples of such methods may include cutting or splitting the bale into sheets or slabs as well as exposing the bale to various forms of high impact or high speed milling or grinding such as hammermills such processes however do not produce forms of the pulp that are suitable for thermoplastic composites manufacturing processes when exposing the bales to various forms of high impact or high speed grinding the bulk density of the pulp is drastically reduced and large amounts of dust are produced pulp converted through such processes is extremely difficult to feed due to its low bulk density form the present invention uses an alternative strategy for converting lignocellulosic pulp bales into a form suitable for feeding instead of using the previously described techniques the present invention is capable of directly converting the bales through the production of u201c dense fibre aggregates u201d from the bale surfaces this is done without any prior modifications or processing conducted on the bale such dense fibre aggregates are suitable for controlled feeding into a variety of thermoplastic composite manufacturing processes the present invention also maximizes retention of fibre length and minimizes production of dust dense fibre aggregates are defined as particles of approximately 0 2 3 0 inch in width more preferably 0 5 1 0 inch in width and with individual.