Advanced recycling of post-consumer solid wood and MDF

Mark Irle (1) , Francois Privat (2) , Laetitia Couret (1) , Christophe Belloncle (1) , Gérard Deroubaix (2) , Estelle Bonnin (3) , Bernard Cathala (3)

1 ESB - Ecole Supérieure du Bois
2 FCBA - Institut Technologique Forêt Cellulose Bois-construction Ameublement
3 BIA - Unité de recherche sur les Biopolymères, Interactions Assemblages

Wood recycling is common practice in most countries. Currently, recovered wood is used for relatively low value uses including energy generation, particleboard manufacture, animal beddings and landscape uses. This paper gives an overview of two research projects that aim to generate high-value products from recovered wood and thereby encourage even higher rates of wood recycling. One project is concerned with the extraction of nano-crystalline cellulose from waste MDF and the other produces laminated beams from recovered wood.

Mots clés: Recovered wood; recycling; MDF; nano-crystalline cellulose; laminated beams

Domaines: Ingénierie des aliments; Génie des procédés

Mark Irle, Francois Privat, Laetitia Couret, Christophe Belloncle, Gérard Deroubaix, et al.. Advanced recycling of post-consumer solid wood and MDF. Wood Material Science and Engineering, 2019, 14 (1), pp.19-23. ⟨10.1080/17480272.2018.1427144⟩. ⟨hal-02624507⟩