A sheet manufacturing apparatus can manufacture sheets using a small amount of energy even when making high grammage sheets. A sheet manufacturing apparatus according to the invention is characterized by supplying 0.014 times or more and 0.28 times or less energy to heat and compress a laid web of fiber and resin, bond multiple fibers through the resin, and forma sheet with grammage of 80 g/m.sup.2 than the energy consumed to dry a web containing approximately the same weight percent of water as fiber and form a sheet with grammage of 80 g/m.sup.2.

Variation in the amount of material that is dispersed when material containing fiber is discharged by a sieve is suppressed. A fiber processing device has a drum that screens defibrated material containing fiber, a mesh belt that accumulates first screened material discharged from the drum, and a processor that processes the first screened material accumulated on the mesh belt. The drum operates at a first speed during processing by the processor; and when the drum starts from a stationary stop, a startup operation including a state in which the drum operates at a slower speed than the first speed executes for a specific time.

A cloud-based system network for verifying and documenting prefabricating Class-A fire-protected wood-framed buildings produced from a prefabricated Class-A fire-protected wood-framed building factory system supporting multiple production lines for producing Class-A fire-protected wood-framed components including wall panels, floor panels, stair panels, floor trusses, and roof trusses for use in constructing custom and pre-specified prefabricated Class-A fire-protected wood-framed buildings. The system network includes (i) a data center with web, application and database servers for supporting a web-based site for hosting digital images of barcoded/RFID-tagged certificates attached to prefabricated Class-A fire-protected wood-framed building components, and other certification documents, and (ii) mobile smart-phones used to capture digital photographs and video recordings of Class-A fire-protected wood-framed building sections, and upload the captured digital images to the data center, for each prefabricated wood-framed building project, so that building purchasers, insurance companies, builders, architects and other stakeholders can review such certifications and documentations during the prefabrication of wood-framed buildings from the factory system.

A cloud-based system network for verifying and documenting prefabricating Class-A fire-protected wood-framed buildings produced from a prefabricated Class-A fire-protected wood-framed building factory system supporting multiple production lines for producing Class-A fire-protected wood-framed components including wall panels, floor panels, stair panels, floor trusses, and roof trusses for use in constructing custom and pre-specified prefabricated Class-A fire-protected wood-framed buildings. The system network includes (i) a data center with web, application and database servers for supporting a web-based site for hosting digital images of barcoded/RFID-tagged certificates attached to prefabricated Class-A fire-protected wood-framed building components, and other certification documents, and (ii) mobile smart-phones used to capture digital photographs and video recordings of Class-A fire-protected wood-framed building sections, and upload the captured digital images to the data center, for each prefabricated wood-framed building project, so that building purchasers, insurance companies, builders, architects and other stakeholders can review such certifications and documentations during the prefabrication of wood-framed buildings from the factory system.

An Internet-based system network for supporting the delivery, certification and remote inspection of fire-protection provided to wood-framed and mass-timber building construction sites, as well as prefabricated wood-framed and mass timber buildings and components within a prefabricated building factory. The system network also manages the supply of clean fire inhibiting chemical (CFIC) totes from a chemical factory or warehouse to (i) wood-framed building construction job sites, as well as (ii) factories manufacturing prefabricated fire-protected wood-framed and mass-timber buildings and components (e.g. modules and panels) using data centers and a network of wireless mobile computing devices.

The invention relates to a process for producing a thermoformable and/or embossable particle/polymer composite using a substrate S based on shredded polymer-coated paper and a thermoplastic polymer P, therewith providing a new method of recycling/upcycling paper waste. Furthermore, a process for the manufacturing of a molded article obtained from the paper-based particle/polymer composite and its use as an element in buildings or in furniture are disclosed.

A thermally fused board manufacturing apparatus includes: a fiberizing section that produces a fiber material by fiberizing a raw material containing fabric; a material supply pipe section that carries the fiber material; a humidifying section configured to humidify the fiber material; a carriage pipe section that adds a material different from the fiber material to the fiber material and carries the material and the fiber material; a mixing section that produces a deposition fiber material by mixing the material and the fiber material, at part of the carriage pipe section; a depositing section that forms a fiber aggregate by depositing the deposition fiber material; a thermal fusing section that forms a thermally fused board by applying heat and pressure to the fiber aggregate; and a controller that controls the humidifying section.

Thermoplastic composite articles are described that comprise biomaterials in one or more of a core layer and a skin layer. In certain arrangements, the thermoplastic composite article can include a porous core layer comprising a web of open celled structures comprising random crossing over of a plurality of reinforcing fibers held together by a thermoplastic material. The thermoplastic material can include virgin and recycled thermoplastic materials if desired. The web may also comprise biomaterials that can be bioparticles, biofibers or both. Exterior and interior components including the thermoplastic composite articles are also described.

A product forming unit for manufacturing non-flat cellulose products from an air-formed cellulose blank structure (2). The product forming unit includes a blank dry-forming module with a moveable forming wire, a toggle pressing module with a toggle press and a forming mold, and an electronic control system operatively connected to the forming wire and the toggle press. The blank dry-forming module is configured for air-forming the cellulose blank structure onto the forming wire. The toggle press includes a pressing member movably arranged in a pressing direction, a toggle-mechanism drivingly connected to the pressing member, and a pressing actuator arrangement drivingly connected to the toggle-mechanism. The forming mold includes a moveable first mold part attached to the pressing member and a second mold part. The electronic control system is configured for controlling operation of the pressing actuator arrangement for performing pressing operations, which involves driving the pressing member in the pressing direction by the toggle-mechanism, and thereby forming the non-flat cellulose product from the air-formed cellulose blank structure by pressing the first mold part against the second mold part. The electronic control system is configured for intermittently feeding the forming wire between subsequent pressing operations.

Method for dry-forming cellulose products from a cellulose blank structure in a product forming unit. The product forming unit includes a blank dry-forming module and a pressing module. The cellulose blank structure is air-formed in the blank dry-forming module onto a forming wire. The pressing module includes one or more forming molds for forming the cellulose products from the cellulose blank structure in a pressing operation. The method includes arranging the forming wire in a stationary mode during the pressing operation.