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.

A method of fabricating a cork composite material and a cork composite material. The method may comprise providing a plurality of cork particles in a volume and adding a dispersion of thermoplastic elastomer to the volume to provide a mixture of the dispersion of thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles. The method may comprise agitating the cork particles and/or the mixture of the dispersion of thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles and heating the mixture of the thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles. The method may comprise allowing the mixture of the thermoplastic elastomer and the cork particles to cool. The steps of the method together may result in a plurality of coated cork particles being coated in a first layer of the thermoplastic elastomer.

A raw-material feeding device includes: a storage section that includes a bottom section and a side wall standing from the bottom section and that stores, in a storage space surrounded by the bottom section and the side wall, small pieces of raw material constituted by a material containing fibers; a stirring section that is provided in the bottom section at a position facing the storage space, that includes a blade which rotates about a rotational axis extending in a direction in which the side wall stands, and that stirs the raw material in the storage space by rotating the blade; a first discharging section that is provided in the side wall so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a first tubular body rotating about a first axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation of the first tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to a processing section; and a second discharging section that is provided in the side wall at a position different from a position at which the first tubular body is provided so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a second tubular body rotating about a second axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation the second tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to the processing section.

The disclosure relates to a wood material panel hot press for producing a wood material panel, wherein the wood material panel hot press has an inlet side and an outlet side, and is designed to press a blank supplied on the inlet side in order to form a wood material panel. According to the invention, a temperature measurement device is provided which is designed to automatically measure the temperature (T) of the wood material panel on the outlet side in a spatially resolved manner.

A sheet manufacturing apparatus configured to manufacture a sheet by heating and pressurizing a material containing a fiber and an additive agent includes a supplying unit configured to supply the additive agent in air, a first tank configured to communicate with the supplying unit and store the additive agent, and a second tank configured to communicate with the first tank, store the additive agent, and be able to detach from the sheet manufacturing apparatus.

The sheet manufacturing apparatus includes an accumulation unit that accumulates a material containing a fiber and a resin; a heating unit that includes a first rotating body and a second rotating body and heats a sediment accumulated by the accumulation unit; a displacement mechanism that displaces the heating unit to a first position where the first rotating body and second rotating body nip and heat the sediment and a second position where the first rotating body and the second rotating body are separated from each other; and a controller that displaces the first rotating body and the second rotating body to the first position after heating the first rotating body and the second rotating body in the second position.

Wood-fiber insulation board is pressed to a uniform thickness and continuously advanced in a horizontal travel direction on a conveyor prior to subdivision into individual panels. The strength of the wood-fiber insulation board is determined by first pressing with an actuator a contact element downward at an actual pressure on a subregion of the advancing wood-fiber insulation board so as produce an actual deformation of the wood-fiber insulation board of between 1% to 7% of its thickness. Then a force sensor determines the actual pressure applied by the contact element to the board that produces the actual deformation and this the determined pressure and the actual deformation are transmitted to a central processor that extrapolates to a standardized deformation based on the determined pressure and actual deformation.

A method to process cellulose fibres, preferably including wood fibres, comprises the steps: Deriving first fibres having a first property from a first raw material comprising cellulose fibres, Milling the first fibres to provide milled fibres, preferably with an average characteristic fibre dimension greater than 100 m, Drying the first fibres to provide dried fibres having a residual moisture less than 10% by weight, Adding one or more polymers, preferably including Lignin, to the dried fibres to provide a predetermined mixture including a polymer weight fraction of at least 5%, Processing the predetermined mixture to provide granules with an average characteristic granule dimension between 2 to 6 mm.

In one embodiment, a method for making a high density structural composite includes depositing a plurality of fibrous materials on or adjacent a first plate or surface. A polymer liquid is deposited onto the plurality of fibrous materials to form a composite mixture. A first cyclic pressure is applied onto the composite mixture to compress the composite mixture. In some embodiments, the cyclic pressure may then be reduced to a valley pressure to complete a pressurization cycle. In some instances, the valley pressure may be below atmospheric pressure to induce trapped air and volatile gases to escape from the composite mixture before curing. The pressurization cycle may be repeated. A second pressure, which may be a constant pressure in some embodiments, may be applied to the composite mixture using, in some embodiments, a second plate until the polymer liquid has at least partially cured or partially solidified.

The invention relates to a process for preparing an article comprising: i) providing a two-part adhesive composition having a liquid part comprising an amine-based azetidinium-functional cross-linker, a diluent and water, and a solid part comprising ground Helianthus meal or ground Brassica meal or a mixture thereof, having a granulometry d50 of less than 300 m, ii) adding either the liquid part or the solid part to a lignocellulosic material to provide a mixture, then iii) adding the remaining liquid or solid part to the mixture to provide a lignocellulosic material impregnated with the adhesive composition.