Forest-based industries produce huge quantities of bark during their primary processing activities. In Nordic pulp and paper industries, where a wet debarking process is used for bark removal, toxic debarking water and bark press water are produced a...
Hazel wood (Corylus avellana L.) is widespread in Europe but remains underutilized in industry. This study evaluated its potential as a raw material for three-layer particleboards for furniture and interior use. Boards were produced with barked and d...
Softwood bark is an important by-product of forest industry. Currently, bark is under-utilized and mainly directed for energy production, although it can be extracted with hot water to obtain compounds for value-added use. In Norway spruce (Picea abi...
Larch bark is an interesting resource for the production of insulation panels. As it consists of a sugar-rich inner bark and an outer bark containing more durable components, there is the requirement to separate these compartments. Additionally, bark...
The self-heating propensity of the fresh wood of ten tree species (two coniferous, eight deciduous) was studied calorimetrically using oxidation heats, q30, at a temperature of 30 °C. Values of q30 in the range between 0.45 W kg−1 (dry) and...
In this work, the sawmill waste from Picea abies debarking was considered as source of valuable phytoconstituents. The extraction was performed using different ethanol/water mixtures, and characterization was obtained by LC-MSn. This latter revealed...
Lignocellulosic residues have the potential for obtaining high value-added products that could be better valorized if biorefinery strategies are adopted. The debarking of short-rotation crops yields important amounts of residues that are currently un...