ProLigno / ProLigno 2005 Issue 2  
     
 
 
   

 


 

 

 

INTERRELATION OF WOOD PROPERTIES AND PRODUCT QUALITY - CHALLENGES FOR A NEW DESIGN OF THE PROCESS CHAIN



Prof. Dipl.Ing. Dr. – Universität für Bodenkultur Wien - Dpt. Material Science and Process Engineering/Wood Science and Technology & Competence Centre for Wood Composites and Wood Chemistry/Wood K plus
Address: A-1190 Wien, Peter Jordanstrasse 82
E-mail: alfred.teischinger@boku.ac.at

Abstract:
Nature´s engineering of wood through genetics, soil, climate etc. creates a wide variability in wood as a raw material. Consequently, manufacturers often face problems in converting the versatile raw material into quality products and users of wood products are often frustrated with the performance variability found in finished products.
The recent trend in mass-production has been towards uniformity. Products are designed to please the „average consumer“ either in order to reduce costs or because the wood industry doesn´t know how to please  the individual consumer´s wishes. The new measurement technologies, introduced in this paper, are some of the latest and most outstanding developments ,that show the power to understand and manipulate diversity – rather than to eliminate it. It must be the main target to transform the inherent properties of the raw material wood, which are a result of a unique biological optimisation into the wood product performances best possible. There is a great number of such properties e.g. strength properties and stiffness, durability, colour, texture etc. and mainly depend on the further use of the raw material.

Key words: wood quality, wood process chain, wood quality assessment

 

 
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