ewp

Reducing the CO2 footprint of EWP
Finnish researchers have developed a process that can produce reactive lignin from pulp industry side streams. Lignin’s CO2 footprint is only 20% of the footprint of phenol, and it can be used as a replacement for the toxic phenol compounds used in wood adhesives.  Researchers from the VTT Technical Research Centre have found that the ...Read More

New EWP to challenge CLT
An innovative new wood product, Mass Plywood Panel (MPP), is hitting the market thanks to Freres Lumber. MPP is currently being tested and refined through a partnership with Oregon State University and the new Center for Advanced Wood Products. A veneer-based engineered wood product, MPP is a massive, large-scale plywood panel with maximum finished panel ...Read More

Carbon storage in engineered wood products in landfills
Presented by Fabiano Ximenes, NSW Dept. of Primary Industries, Wednesday 11 September 2pm – 3pm EST About the webinar View more information: Carbon storage in engineered wood products in landfills View Powerpoint Presentation View Recording of WebinarRead More

Carbon Storage in Engineered Wood Products in Landfills
Each year approximately two million tonnes of wood and engineered wood products (EWPs) are disposed of in Australian landfills. This project determined the long-term storage of carbon in particleboard, medium-density fibreboard (MDF) and high-pressure laminate (HPL) in landfill and also in optimal laboratory decay conditions. The particleboard and MDF reactors produced gas (predominantly methane) for ...Read More

Utilisation of plantation eucalypts in engineered wood products
Currently in South America and Iberia significant quantities of veneer-based engineered wood products (EWP) are produced from plantation eucalypts; however, no Australian wood processing companies use any significant quantities of plantation-grown eucalypts to produce either veneer or veneer-based EWPs. This research project reviewed and summarised information on using plantation eucalypts for EWPs such as laminated ...Read More

The durability of isocyanate-based adhesives under service in Australian conditions. The results from a 3 year exposure study and accelerated testing regime (Literature Review)
This project focused on the performance of isocyanate-based adhesives (IBAs) used to bond Australian wood species in Australian conditions. IBAs are an alternative to phenolic-based adhesives used to produce engineered wood products (EWP). There were three main areas of investigation; a three year exposure test to monitor the durability of IBAs; five accelerated test methods; ...Read More

Guide to the specification, installation and use of preservative treated engineered wood products
This user-friendly guide provides information on best practices for the selection, preservative treatment, design, installation and finishing of Engineered Wood Products (EWP) to ensure product fitness for purpose and performance over a range of applications, hazard exposures, and design lives. The target users are designers, builders, engineers, specifiers and other users of EWPs. In the ...Read More