In the manufacturing industries, it is a standard procedure to heat the logs to soften them before the peeling process, generally achieved by immersing the whole logs in a hot …
Colour is an important property of veneer in furniture industry. Often the furniture companies struggle with the problem that the colour of veneer from the same species ordered from different …
Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer, however, its full potential has yet to be reached since 3% is only utilized (Onwukamike et al., 2018). The long-term goal is to replace …
The overall objective of the ForestValue project WoodLCC is to enable robust and precise Life-Cycle-Costing (LCC) based on input from novel models for detailed service life performance specification for wooden …
Cellulose is the most abundant biopolymer in the world. Small diameter softwood and hardwood logs are used for pulping process to produce cellulose fibres for paper production. Thermoplastic cellulose esters …
Plywood is one of the most widely used wood-based panel product in the world. In plywood production the most common species like birch, spruce, poplar and pine are used. In …
In terms of hygrothermal performance, solid wood panels such as crosslaminated timber (CLT) are sensitive to moisture. However, the previous studies on the hygrothermal performance of CLT external envelopes have …
