ADHESIVES FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES FOR BINDING WOOD-BASED PANELS

摘要

Nowadays, there is an increasing requirement by the industry of composite wood panel (particleboard, fiberboard, plywood, etc.) for replacement of the petrochemical raw materials used in the synthesis of wood adhesives, by others from renewable resources, so that the wood panels can be characterised as total bio-products. CHIMAR Hellas, a private research institute with activities in the development of adhesives and additives for the wood-based panels industry, foresaw this need and has already developed thermosetting phenol-formaldehyde resins where a substantial part of the contained phenol has been replaced by natural raw materials from renewable resources. These bio-based resins have a performance comparable to the relative adhesives from petrochemical raw materials and may be well introduced for the production of wood-based panels even at industrial scale.