Shavings, planer

Lignocellulosics reach temperatures around 80 C in many ways besides. For example, planer shavings and peat insulation around hot pipes or in walls of dry kilns easily attain 100 C, and forest product industries stack still hot wood-base panels at temperatures around 80 C. In many cases the temperatures of the hot materials later on rose above the initial 80 or 100"C, first to levels of smoldering combustion, and finally to those of open flames. In air-exposed and ventilated materials oxidation could cause the heating above 80 or 100 C, but inside tight packs of panels pyrolysis must have been the heat source. 

Bark, trimmings, split wood, sawdust, planer shavings, sander dust... 

Particle Preparation. The initial step in particleboard production is reduction of the wood raw material into the desired configuration for the particular particleboard to be manufactured. The wood may be received from a number of sources and in a variety of forms. Roundwood, chips, planer shavings, plywood trim, and sawdust are the most common raw material forms and rarely does one particleboard plant use more than two or three of the above sources. Different processing steps are required to produce quality particles from each of the above sources consequently, each plant is limited to the source which is compatible with their... 

By far, wood particles are the major raw material source used for manufacturing WPCs. Wood particles can originate from sawdust, planer shavings, short solid pieces of lumber, conventional wood composite scrap [6], and scrap pallets [12], Both softwoods and hardwoods can be used for WPC production. Currently, most WPCs using softwoods are made with southern yellow pine, while WPCs produced with hardwoods are made with oak, maple, or aspen. The anatomical features as well as physical, mechanical, and chemical properties of softwoods and hardwoods differ considerably among species, and may affect the wood-polymer interface, and, as a consequence, the composite s properties and performance. 

Particleboard. Particleboard is prepared using small dried-particles combined with a thermally curable adhesive or other suitable binder and bonded together under high heat and pressure into panels of the desired thickness. The raw materials used to produce particleboard consist of wood wastes from sawmills, primarily from milled or groimd wood chips, sawdust, and planer shaving. In some cases recycled cellulosic materials and plant residues such as wheat straw and bagasse are utilized as fiimish to make particleboard. Most particleboard is formed into flat panels. However, molded and extruded particleboard products such as furniture parts, molded door skins, and molded pallets are also produced. 

As such wood flour, used as a filler in thermoplastic composites, offers only modest, if any, reinforcement, but wood fibers can lead to superior composite properties and act more as reinforcing filler. Commercial wood flour is a by-product of the wood industry, often mechanically processed from waste materials such as planer shavings, chips, and sawdust, which are reduced to fine powders, with various grades available depending upon the particle size and the wood species. Wood (cellulose) fibers are produced through more or less complex defibrillation techniques, using raw materials from both virgin and recycled resources, and are different from natural fibers, such as jute, hemp, or sisal. 

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