The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a cellulose product having a flat or non-flat product shape by a pressure moulding apparatus comprising a forming mould. The forming mould has a forming surface defining said product shape, The method comprises the steps of: arranging a cellulose blank containing less than 45 weight percent water in said forming mould; heating said cellulose blank to a forming temperature in the range of 100 C. to 200 C.; and pressing said cellulose blank by means of said forming mould with a forming pressure acting on the cellulose blank across said forming surface, said forming pressure being in the range of 1 MPa to 100 MPa.

A method for manufacturing a cellulose product, comprising the steps: dry forming a cellulose blank in a dry forming unit; arranging the cellulose blank in a forming mould; heating the cellulose blank to a forming temperature in the range of 100 C. to 200 C.; and pressing the cellulose blank in the forming mould with a forming pressure of at least 1 MPa.

A sheet manufacturing apparatus capable of suppressing adhesion of defibrated material to the inside of the apparatus is provided. A sheet manufacturing apparatus has a defibrating unit that defibrates into defibrated material feedstock containing fiber; mesh that captures at least part of the defibrated material conveyed from the defibrating unit by gas, and passes the gas; an opening to which the defibrated material captured by the mesh, and gas of a different state than the gas from the defibrating unit, are introduced; and a sheet forming unit that forms a sheet using the defibrated material introduced from the opening.

A temperature-curable aminoplastic adhesive resin that is a (poly)-condensate of: (i) at least one aminoplast-forming chemical; (ii) 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF), its oligomers and/or its isomers; and, (iii) at the least one second (poly-)condensable chemical produced in the presence of an organic sulfonic acid. Composite boards, such as wood-based panels, can be produced using this adhesive resin. The production of the aminoplastic adhesive resins includes the reaction of urea with 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) and glyoxal in the presence of an organic sulfonic acid as a hardener. The adhesive resin can be used in the production of wood-based panels, such as, particleboards, chipboards, fiberboards and products usually called, among others, plywood and/or blockboards, in the presence of an organic sulfonic during curing.

A method for processing planar material webs made of a fiber-containing material is disclosed. The planar material webs are fed as material web portions or endless material web, for the production of three-dimensional products. Before a material web is pressed for shaping, the material web is preformed three-dimensionally by deforming the material web in at least one direction substantially without stretching or compressing.

A method for manufacturing three-dimensional products with at least one inclined product portion made of a fiber-containing material using at least one forming tool and a forming tool are described. Vibrations are introduced via a device and this results in an improved compression of fiber-containing material in the region of inclined portions.

A fiber capsule and a method of compression molding a fiber-based packaging capsule, includes the steps: a raw capsule of a loosely bonded fiber mat is formed, which capsule has an opening; the raw capsule of the loosely bonded fiber mat is positioned on the inside of a substantially rigid mold having inner surfaces defining the molded outer surfaces of the fiber-based packaging capsule; the loosely bonded fiber mat is compression molded by the insertion of a pressurizable compression member through the opening. The pressing device is pressurized at a temperature of 150-250 degrees C.. The compression molding takes place by reshaping the reshaping pressing device and pressing the inside of the capsule against the inner surfaces of the rigid mold so that a cohesive fiber-based packaging capsule is obtained.

A hemp-based wood panel, and accompanying process. The hemp-based wood panels extend along mutually orthogonal x and y axes, and have a thickness along a z-axis orthogonal to the x and y axes. The panels comprise hemp shives and hemp fibers and a binder for joining the hemp stalks into a solid form. The processed hemp stalks are oriented along their length substantially at least quasi-isotropically, and optionally isotropically, wherein the processed hemp stalks extend isotropically oriented in the plane defined by the x-axis and y-axis, and extend anisotropically oriented in the plane defined by the y-axis and z-axis. Also, the processed hemp stalks constitute a weight percentage of at least 70% of the panel, and wherein the binder constitutes a weight percentage of at least 5% of the panel and at most 20% of the panel.

An embodiment of the present disclosure provides fine cellulose fibers that satisfy, in measurement using an automatic fiber shape analyzer, all of (i) the length weighted average fiber length of fibers having a fiber length of at least 100 m is 110-500 m, (ii) the average fiber diameter is at most 42.5 m, (iii) the fine fiber area ratio is at most 90%, (iv) the number frequency of fibers having a fiber length of 20-56 m is at most 97% among fibers having a fiber length of less than 100 m, (v) the number frequency of fibers having a fiber length of at least 411 m is at most 54% among fibers having a fiber length of at least 100 m, and (vi) the average fiber diameter is 20-150 nm in terms of specific surface area.

A method of producing a moulded article comprising a thermoset polymer and particles of porous natural materials, such as wood materials, and uses thereof. The composite material has a continuous matrix of a hardened thermoset polymer and, distributed within the matrix, and the particles are at least partially encased by the thermoset polymer. The method comprises the steps of providing a mould with two opposite pressing surfaces, said pressing surfaces defining a space between them; feeding particles of porous natural materials into the space between the pressing surfaces; advancing the surfaces towards each other to compress the particles in said space; feeding unhardened thermoset resin in liquid form into the mould so as to fill at least said space between pressing surfaces while keeping the particles compressed between the pressing surfaces; and curing the thermoset resin in the mould to provide a moulded composite article.