New environmental benign wood protection agents often come from natural resources, and are sometimes a waste product. Chitosan, a derivative from chitin which is among other sources a by-product from …
Legislation restricted the continued use of chromate copper arsenate (CCA) preservatives and creosote. Hence, wood protection agents using different fixation systems were brought forward or were developed as well as …
Vacuum dried Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) roundwood and sapwood blocks were impregnated with different emulsions based on rapeseed oil with boron compounds and rapeseed oil with Tanalith E. The impregnation …
Application of fire retardants may become a regular practice in the conservation of art works, even though studies on compatibility of fire retardants and Paraloid B72® and thermal properties of …
