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 for manufacturing non-flat cellulose products from an air-formed cellulose blank structure in a product forming unit. The product forming unit includes a buffering module and a pressing module including one or more forming molds. The method includes providing the cellulose blank structure and feeding the cellulose blank structure to the buffering module; buffering the cellulose blank structure in the buffering module, and feeding the cellulose blank structure from the buffering module to the pressing module; forming cellulose products from the cellulose blank structure in the one or more forming molds by heating the cellulose blank structure to a forming temperature, and pressing the cellulose blank structure with a forming pressure. The cellulose blank structure is continuously fed to the buffering module in a first feeding direction, and intermittently fed from the buffering module in a second feeding direction, wherein the second feeding direction differs from the first feeding direction.

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.

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 dry manufacturing rigid cellulose products having an essentially non-flat general shape from cellulose fibres comprising the steps of: providing a quantity of separated cellulose fibres from a dry cellulose raw material in at least one separating unit, providing the separated cellulose fibres onto a support structure for forming a cellulose blank, producing the rigid cellulose product having essentially non-flat general shape by pressing the cellulose blank in a product forming unit having a moulding tool for forming the rigid cellulose product, by means of at least one imprinting tool before the step of producing the rigid cellulose product, imprinting the cellulose blank by providing an imprinted pattern onto the cellulose blank to increase internal bonding between individual cellulose fibres at the location of the imprinted pattern to prevent mutual separation of the individual cellulose fibres during the pressing of the cellulose blank in the product forming unit.

An apparatus for dry manufacturing rigid cellulose products having essentially non-flat general shape comprising a disintegrating unit, a cellulose blank forming unit, and a product forming unit. The cellulose blank forming unit comprises a dispenser for guiding a cellulose fibre carrying air flow from the disintegrating unit, and a forming drum having an outer surface comprising perforations. The outer surface is configured for receiving cellulose fibres and forming a continuous or discontinuous cellulose blank, and comprises a first area having a first perforation density and a second area having a second perforation density less than the first perforation density for forming the cellulose blank with higher grammage at first locations originating from the first area than at second locations originating the said second area. The apparatus further comprises an air removing device arranged inside the forming drum, and a support structure for receiving the cellulose blank from the forming drum.

The present invention relates to a part of a luggage system, in particular a shell of a hard-shell case or trolley, comprising a natural fiber material. The present invention further relates to a method for the manufacture and a method for the repair of such a part. A part of a luggage system is provided which comprises a fiber-reinforced material, wherein the fiber-reinforced material comprises a natural fiber material and a matrix material. The natural fiber material comprises at least one set of unidirectional fibers which are embedded in and/or impregnated with the matrix material.

The invention relates to a pressing tool for coating wood panels in hydraulic hot presses, which is designed as a press platen (1) made of a high temperature-resistant polyether ether ketone (PEEK)-type synthetic material and the surface (2) of which is structured or smooth with different degrees of gloss.

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.

Described is a process of producing a multi-layer lignocellulosic composite comprising one or more lignocellulosic composite layers or a single-layer lignocellulosic composite, wherein a high-frequency electrical field is applied and wherein a binder comprising for hardening the binder via esterification at least one, two or more compounds having two or more hydroxy groups and additionally one, two or more compounds having two or more carboxyl groups is provided or prepared. Furthermore described is a lignocellulosic composite, which is preparable according to that process, a construction product comprising such lignocellulosic composite, the use of such lignocellulosic composite as a building element in a construction product and a binder or binder composition for producing a lignocellulosic composite.