A Brief Overview of the Chapter

A rather common assumption that coupling agents, such as maleated polyolehns or organosilanes, act via formation of covalent bonds with wood hber is typically word of mouth rather than based on a solid experimental base. In fact, there were 

COMPOSITION OF WOOD-PLASTIC COMPOSITES COUPLING AGENTS 

The most commonly employed coupling agents, such as maleated polyleflns of the Polybond , Integrate , and Fusabond series, show effects on WPG that are rather similar to each other. Those effects are largely determined by processing conditions 

MALEATED POLYOLEFINS (POLYBOND, INTEGRATE, FUSABOND, EPOLENE, EXXELOR, OREVAC, LOTADER, SCONA, 

It should be taken into account that maleated polyolefins can slowly react with air moisture during storage, and form free acid. As a result, chemical reactivity of the coupling agents decrease. Hence, care should be taken to keep maleated polyolefins dry, or heat them up before usage in order to regenerate the anhydride chemical structure. 

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