Liquid by-products from wood and forest industry find use in wood-plastic composites
A novel method for adding liquid by-products from the wood industry into wood-plastic composites (WPCs) prior to manufacturing was developed in a new study from the University of Eastern Finland. The study also discovered that proton-transfer-reaction mass-spectrometry (PTR-MS) is a suitable method for measuring the amounts of volatile organic compounds, VOCs, released from WPCs. Wood-plastic composites – replacing plastics with wood There is an increasing need to find new alternatives for crude oil based materials such as plastics. WPCs are natural fibre composites with properties of