to fig1 a suitable method to produce a lyocell dissolving pulp from low specific gravity wood is illustrated the method may be considered to include two broad processing areas pulping depicted as block 126 and bleaching depicted as block 128 in block 100 low specific gravity wood chips are loaded or fed into a digester specific gravity according to the handbook of pulping and papermaking 2d ed by christopher j biermann is the unit less ratio of the solid wood density to the density of water at the same temperature as used herein specific gravity is the average specific gravity of any population of wood feedstock material the solid wood density may be determined using the green volume the oven dry volume or intermediate volumes the wood chips used in practicing the invention can be made from any cellulose source contrary to conventional thinking low specific gravity wood has been found to be suitable for use as a source of cellulose for making lyocell molded bodies a suitable range of low specific gravity wood used for the present invention is any wood material having a specific gravity about equal or less than 0 41 low specific gravity wood results in a lower brownstock pulp viscosity which is believed to.