Arboform - LIG - Tecnaro GmbH

Plastics Technology, 2004-03-24, Fulfilling a Dream of Moldable Wood
..., these violins would be injection or compression molded, rather than carved painstakingly by hand. Arboform, as it's called, is in fact a plastic made from wood.

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Biologically Degradable Plastics
...aterials developed by IFA are marketed by Fasalex GmbH, Kopfing/Austria, (Fasalex) and Austel Research + Development GmbH, Tulln/Austria (Fasal). A likewise new development in the field of compounds with high proportion of wood fibre is the material Arboform produced and marketed by Tecnaro GmbH, Eisenach/Germany. In contrast to the other compounds, this material consists only of components that come originally from wood, that is, in addition to wood fibres above all the lignin produced during c...

Kunststoffe international, 2005-11-21, Lignin - Tailor-made
... company. The development was carried out at the Fraunhofer Institut für Chemische Technologie, Pfinztal/Germany and then taken forward commercially by a spin-off company called Tecnaro of Eisenach/Germany. The materials marketed under the name Arboform contain up to 50 % natural fibres and are based on a thermoplastic lignin matrix. Unlike these finished lignin compounds, pure lignin can be bought from Granit SA in the form of a brown powder. Depending on the type of lignin, which is usually de...

Kunststoffe international, 2006-09-05, Wood-filled Thermoplastics: No All-purpose Fire Protection
...f plastics processors and users. These materials are also referred to as “wood-filled plastics”. Originally, they consisted of a lignin or starch matrix that was reinforced with wood fibres. A good example of a lignin-based wood composite is Arboform from Tecnaro GmbH, Ilsfeld/Germany, while marketable starch-based materials are being developed at the Interuniversitäres Forschungsinstitut für Agrarbiotechnologie (Inter-university Research Institute for Agrobioiotechnology) in Tulln/Austria. Owin...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-05-12, Reliable Process for Liquid Wood Products
...a collection of his urns. “I have been fascinated by thermoplastics made from renewable raw materials since the 1990s when I was working for an automobile manufacturer. Since 2002, we have been carrying out trials with the wood-based material, Arboform, in our own company.” But why urns of all things? “We were looking for an injection moldable product that we could launch quickly and directly onto the market,” explains Perschl. “And the undertakers are increasingly looking for urns made from env...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-08-24, Back to Nature
... this respect is Tecnaro of Ilsfeld-Auenstein, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With the support of the Fraunhofer Institute, its former employees Helmut Nägele and Jürgen Pfitzer developed the materials Arboform and Arbofill in 13 years of work [9]. These products, also known as “liquid wood”, show, like Ingeo or AgriPlast, all the properties of oil-based plastics. The trick, however, is that a starting material is used that already occurs in industrial processes and is only being reused here. Bo...

Kunststoffe international, 2011-10-17, Bioplastics
...ucing EVA is another goal at the development departments of chemical companies. Computer manufacturer Fujitsu is now utilizing combinations of wood materials, such as arboform, and bioplastics, such as biograde, to market computer mice (Title photo) made from renewable raw materials. Other (Bio?)Plastics: The assignment of polymer material types to the concept of bioplastics has not yet been clarified univocally, for which reason they are interpreted differently. Hybrid bio(plastics) are mixture...