Nonwood cellulose

Although wood is certainly the most important industrial source of cellulosic fibers, competition from different sectors such as the building products and furniture industries and the pulp and paper industry, as well as the combustion of wood for energy, makes it challenging to supply all users with the quantities of wood needed at reasonable cost. Besides this, many regions do not have wood available, turning its options to nonwood cellulose. For this reason, fibers from crops such as flax, hemp, sisal, and others, especially from by-products of these different plants, are... 

Uses Fungicide, mildeweide for waterborne pigmented stains (nonwood), adhesives, glues, starch or cellulosic based wallpaper pastes, waterborne industrial and architectural coalings, textile preps. 

Generally, polymers from renewable resources have different origins such as natural (e.g., polysaccharides - namely cellulose and starch, which are produced in large amounts protein gums), synthetic (e.g., polylactic acid, PLA) derived from natural monomers, and microbial (e.g., polyhydroxybutyrate, PHB) [1, 5] The main components of biomass are cellulose, lignin, hemicelluloses and extractives and, as a nonwood structural component, starch. 

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