Project information
Project manager
Stergios Adamopoulos
Other project members
Reza Hosseinpourpia and Wen Jiang, Linnaeus University
Thomas Walther, IKEA Industry AB; Valeri Naydenov, SunPine AB
Participating organizations
Linnaeus University, IKEA Industry AB, SunPine AB
Financier
Vinnova (hypotesprövning steg 1 inom BioInnovation: nyskapande projekt med högre risk)
Timetable
1 May 2019-31 Oct 2019
Subject
Forestry and Wood Technology (Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, Faculty of Technology)
More about the project
Preliminary findings have indicated a great potential for using tall oil and its refined derivatives instead of wax, for enhancing the water resistance and inter-fibre strength of cellulosic fibres. It is thus hypothesised that the effects can be transferred to commercial fibre-based products such as fibreboards. Following a two-step approach, a preliminary high-risky research is needed to reveal further possibilities to implement and validate promising results in the industrial production of high density fibreboards.
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