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Enhancing knowledge transfer in the wood protection sector
2018 - IRG/WP 18-50338
In order to meet the needs for the developing bio-based economy, maintaining and expanding the market potential for wood raw materials and wood products in indoor and outdoor construction uses remains a key activity for industries in the biotechnological and f…
C Brischke, G Alfredsen, S Bollmus, M Humar, D Jones, L Meyer-Veltrup, L Nunes
An overview of The Wood Preservation Industry in South Africa
2018 - IRG/WP 18-50343
…and other regulations related to registration of wood preservatives as agricultural remedies and the use thereof has also become applicable.
The timber preservation industry as a subsector is a small part of the total forestry sector, and it is estimated that between 1.3 to 1.5 million m3 of timber in total is…
Bruce Breedt
Quality of the impregnated wood in the Slovenian hardware stores
2017 - IRG/WP 17-20606
…were analysed. Samples were treated with copper based wood preservatives and designed and advertised to be used in heavy duty applications in use classes 3.2 or 4. In order to determine the quality of the treatment penetration, retention and fungicidal properties were determined. Retention was determined with XRF…
M Humar, B Lesar, N Thaler, D Kržišnik, N Kregar, S Drnovšek
Ensuring Quality of Treated Wood – Regulations, Certifications and Associative Background in the Field of Wood Protection in Europe
2017 - IRG/WP 17-20626
Beside legal requirements, buyers and end-users of wood preservatives and/or of treated wood and wood-based materials may require additional warranties regarding the quality and the performance of the products available on the market. These greatly enhance the confidence of end-users and the chance for a product…
M Kutnik, M Klamer, E Melcher
Guidance on the European Biocidal Products Regulation Concerning Efficacy of Wood Preservatives
2017 - IRG/WP 17-20627
In Europe wood preservatives belong to Product Type 8 (PT8) of the Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR, EU n. 528/2012), which regulates the authorisation of biocidal active substances and products in the European market.
The applicant, who aims to obtain authorization to…
I Stephan, M Kutnik, E Conti, M Klamer, L Nunes, J Van Acker, R Plarre
Permeability of Eucalyptus wood improved by microwave treatment
2017 - IRG/WP 17-40773
…timber with functional materials, such as flame retardant, preservatives and resins. Microwave (MW) treatment can increase the permeability of wood both in transverse and longitudinal directions. The effects of MW radiation time, MW radiation power and initial moisture content (MC) on permeability of wood were…
Xia He, Xianjun Li, Jie Xie, Xingyang Xiong
Treatability of beechwood railway sleepers with potential creosote substitutes
2017 - IRG/WP 17-40790
…proofed the potential of copper amine-based wood preservatives in this field of application. However, so far copper-amine based wood preservatives are mainly used for the impregnation of softwoods and little knowledge is available about impregnation of the hardwood species beech.
The tests reported here…
N Pfabigan, E Habla, R Gründlinger
Dual Borate and Copper Naphthenate Treatment of Bridge Timbers:- Potential Performance Enhancements and Cost Savings
2017 - IRG/WP 17-40797
Dual treatment technology combining diffusible preservatives with oil borne preservatives, widely used for crossties in the USA, has now also been commercialized with bridge ties/timbers. In order to understand the implications of these changes, the historic service life of creosote treated bridge timbers…
J Lloyd, C Brischke, R Bennett, A Taylor
Penetration behaviour of different hydrophobic carrier substances for oily wood preservatives in Beech and Scots pine sapwood
2017 - IRG/WP 17-40804
…for creosote will not be prolonged, alternative wood preservatives will be needed. As the penetration behaviour after pressure impregnation of different alternative oily products in this fields of application is so far little investigated, research has been implemented for hydrophobic carrier substances.…
M Starck, A Gellerich, H Militz
Analysis of Wood Industrial Pollutants Based on Emission Coefficients
2017 - IRG/WP 17-50325
Accurate calculation and estimation pollutants is one of the basic tasks of environmental protection .The low carbon economy put forward However,low carbon economy data of wood industry is lack. The paper research on emissions and pollution of Chinese wood…
Chu Jie, Ma Ji, Zhangjing Chen
Review of Leaching Experiments of CCA-Treated Wood and Wood Treated with Copper-based Alternatives
2017 - IRG/WP 17-50330
…this study was to compare leaching rates of various wood preservatives from treated wood and the tests used to gather this information. The preservatives compared included CCA and the copper-based alternatives, MCQ, ACQ, and MCA. The tests compared included AWPA E11, SPLP, TCLP, and environmental leaching tests.…
A Jones, J Marini, H Solo-Gabriele
Assessing the nutrient value of bio-based materials in relation to early fungal growth
2017 - IRG/WP 17-20631
…resistance of wood species and the efficacy of wood preservatives, and are generally regarded to be sufficient and adequate. However, the existing standards are typically inadequate for the correct qualification of new wood products, whose durability is not enhanced with biocides but by new technologies, such…
L De Ligne, J Van den Bulcke, J Baetens, B De Baets, J Van Acker
Functional silicones used for wood protection: preliminary study
2017 - IRG/WP 17-30720
…environmentally friendly alternative to traditional wood preservatives, which contains both insecticides and fungicides.
C Reynaud, F Marchal, F Pochon, M Kutnik
Release of Copper from Pressure Treated Wood
2016 - IRG/WP 16-20584
Micronized copper based wood preservatives including micronized copper quat (MCQ) and micronized copper azole (MCA) have been introduced commercially to the North American market since 2006 as alternatives to alkaline copper quat (ACQ) or soluble copper azole (CA) preservatives. Unlike…
Jun Zhang, J Horton
Performance of copper treated poles and posts after three to fifteen years of exposure
2016 - IRG/WP 16-20595
Copper based wood preservatives are one of the most important wood preservatives for heavy-duty applications. Wood treated with copper-based preservatives performs excellent if applied according to preservative specifications. If used improperly premature failures might…
M Humar, N Thaler
A non-VOC approach of solvent-based wood preservatives for remedial treatment
2016 - IRG/WP 16-30681
Solvent-based wood preservatives are the workhorses in the field of remedial treatment. Due to new European regulations on the indoor air quality there is an increasing pressure on the VOC-content on these solvent-based product types. The transfer of these European regulations…
M Pallaske, S Hellkamp, P Jüngel
Assessment of the biological durability of wood treated with organosilicon compounds
2016 - IRG/WP 16-30685
…is lower than that provided by traditional biocidal wood-preservatives, but it is still adequate in applications where short-to-average service-life is acceptable and where maintenance and/or replacement is possible. Termite behaviour and feeding preferences in situations where choosing between treated and…
M Kutnik, M Montibus, S Derocker, S Salivati, J-P Lecomte
Evaluation of advanced tannin-boron preservative in unsterile soil-bed tests
2016 - IRG/WP 16-30693
…In the meantime, the idea of protecting wood with natural preservatives has been back into favour (Lotz and Hollaway 1988, Nakayama et al. 2001, Singh and Singh 2012).
Tannin a natural plant extract, can be linked with boron (in the form of boric acid) into treated wood, without affecting boron biological activity.…
Jinbo Hu, Yiqiang Wu, Shanshan Chang, Guangming Yuan, G Tondi, M-F Thévenon
Decay resistance of wood treated with bio-friendly preservative systems
2016 - IRG/WP 16-30698
…and increased ecological awareness of consumers, wood preservatives containing biocides are no longer desired on the market. Therefore, research on new environmentally friendly formulations is of great importance. One of the possible solutions is to develop new preservatives based on natural substances, which…
B Mazela, G Cofta, W Perdoch, L Ross Gobakken, P Kwaśniewska-Sip
Colorant Treatments to Enhance the Weathering Resistance of Western Red cedar
2016 - IRG/WP 16-40737
…fungal growth. Colorant treatments, with and without preservatives, were investigated for their ability to limit colour change caused by exposure to accelerated weathering conditions. Treatments with a copper-based wood preservative and with brown pigments substantially reduced colour change due to…
R Stirling, V Landry
New perspectives for wood protection: enzyme-based treatments
2016 - IRG/WP 16-40742
…the active compounds employed in the formulations of the preservatives, since they could become a health and environmental issue. Secondly, long-lasting treatments are preferred in order to increase the service life of the treated wood. Weathering conditions are responsible of constant leaching of the formulations…
C Fernández-Costas, S Palanti, M Á Sanromán, D Moldes
Influence of pressure phase impregnation time on the uptake and distribution of wood preservatives in Scots pine material of diverse treatability
2016 - IRG/WP 16-40752
In spite of the general opinion that Scots pine sapwood is easy to impregnate considerable variations in treatability are reported. In order to study impregnation results of diverse Scots pine sapwood treated with increasing process times, Scots pine sapwood f…
K Zimmer, B Kerfriden
Performance of bio-based building materials – viewpoints from the first year of COST Action FP1303
2015 - IRG/WP 15-20572
Maintaining and expanding the market potential for bio-based building products in indoor and outdoor construction uses remains a key activity for industries in the forestry and biotechnological sector, particularly in Europe. Whilst there are ongoing activitie…
D Jones
Functional silicones used as a potential tool for the development of non-biocidal wood treatments
2015 - IRG/WP 15-30665
…use is conventionally performed by deep impregnation with preservatives. However, some of the traditional wood preservatives, used for decades for wood protection and regarded as the most effective, are currently subjected to severe restrictions because of their toxicity. In fact, new preservation technologies are…
F Lhumeau, C Delaite, F Marchal, F Pochon, M Kutnik
The effect of preservative treatment on mechanical strength and structural integrity of wood
2015 - IRG/WP 15-30667
…applications. Therefore in many cases treating wood with preservatives is unavoidable to ensure the desired service life. However, chemical treatment of wood can result in changes of its mechanical properties. There are contradictory results published in literature regarding the influence of the various…
M Humar, D Kržišnik, C Brischke