News and events

Welcome to "Biobased Adhesives for Composite Boards" with Dr Erik van Herwijnen Deputy Area Manager Wood Materials Technologies, Kompetenzzentrum Holz GmbH (Wood K plus).

BioGlue Centre Days on December 2-3 brought together 50 enthusiasts of biobased adhesives at the historic 15th-century Wik castle near Uppsala, Sweden.

A delegation from Bioglue presented the work of the centre at FPS International Conference on Wood Adhesives was held at The University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Soy flour could be a good base for adhesives, since it Is renewable and cheap. But the issue of wet strength has yet to be solved.

20 young researchers with a strong interest in bio-based adhesives participated in the BioGlue course, which combined theoretical lectures with practical laboratory exercises and analytical evaluations.

Lignin, a major component of plants, can be utilized in various types of adhesives to replace fossil-fuel-based raw materials.

Valentin Silveira successfully defended his thesis on debondable wood adhesives at SLU on September 19.

“Keep it simple”, says Antonio Pizzi to his fellow researchers that are developing sustatainable biobased adhesives.

The chemical company Sekab wants to find new bio based products, and joins the BioGlue-Centre as a partner.