Most commercial wood from the northern European region are of low natural durability. Products from these wood species for outside applications need therefore protection to increase service life. This protection should be free of biocides, come from renewable resource, have great performance and hold a low consumer price. A mixture of water, sorbitol and citric acid has the potential to do just this and are now studied extensively by NIBIO and others. This extended abstract describes the road towards commercialization at NIBIO and ARD Innovation and shows the obtained material properties. Our research has now come far enough to start the actual commercialization of products under the name CIOL.
Keywords: CIOL, citric acid, commercialization, sorbitol, wood protection
Authors
Erik Larnøy
NIBIO, Norway
Johan Biørnstad
NIBIO, Norway
Andreas Treu
NIBIO, Norway
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