One of the top strategic objectives and research areas in Europe is recovering wood from processing and end of life products. However, there are still several ‘contaminated’ wood products that are not or only partly reused/recycled. Particle board waste which is contaminated with aminoplasts is one of these products. In addition, a considerable amount of aminoplast waste resinis produced for th...

1 Associate Professor, Departamento de Ingeniería en Maderas, Universidad del Bío-Bío, Concepción, Chile, 4081112 2 Professor and Dean respectively of the Dept. of Wood and Forest Sciences, Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada, G1V 0A6. 3 Group Leader and Research Scientist, FPInnovations-Wood Products Division, Otawa, ON, Canada K1S 5R1. Corresponding author: [email protected] Received: 02.06...

This paper describes the analysis of raw wood flows in Slovakia. Material flow analysis was used to reveal and quantify relations between the resources and the primary uses of wood. In particular, two approaches to wood flow modelling were utilised wood balance and wood resource balance. Wood balance was introduced to illustrate a global view of the resources and primary uses of roundwood in Sl...

Benchmarking and State of the art for Modified wood With an increased awareness of the fragility of our environment and the need for durability in wood products, new technologies have been developed to increase the service life of wood materials without the use of toxic chemicals. Issues of sustainability, carbon sequestration and performance converge in this search for environmentally friendly...

Hydrothermal treatment of wood material products with many interesting properties such as enhanced dimensional stability, lower equilibrium moisture content and increased biological durability. The effects of hydrothermal treatment on dimensional stability, oven dry density and water absorption of beech wood (Fagus Orientalis) naturally grown, has been studied in present research that extremely...

11 A feasibility study of glulam was carried out in French Guiana using local wood species. The aim 12 was to determine gluing parameters affording satisfactory behaviour to manufactured glulam in 13 a tropical climate. 14 Three abundant wood species, with special properties, were selected for the study and 15 Resorcinol-Phenol-Formaldehyde resin was used for bonding. Three industrial parameter...

From an overall perspective, the circular use of wood-based construction products can significantly contribute to mitigation climate change. To support development specific products, a general guideline for wood product industry has been created in this research. The is based on principle cascade describing sequential wooden resource different purposes before its final incineration energy use. ...

BACKGROUND At the 15th Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Copenhagen, 2009, harvested wood products were identified as an additional carbon pool. This modification eliminates inconsistencies in greenhouse gas reporting by recognizing the role of the forest and timber sector in the global carbon cycle. Any additional CO2-effects related to wood usage are not ...

The objective of this paper was to examine the effect that chemical modification of raw material had on fire resistance of two panel products, namely Oriented Strand Board (OSB) and particleboard and to investigate the influence of the anhydride type. The results have shown that chemical modification affected the ignition and glowing time of two wood panel products.