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Feasibility study of utilization of commercially available polyurethane resins to develop non-biocidal wood preservation treatments

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Evaluation of commercially available polyurethane resins used up to now for coating applications to develop non-biocidal wood preservation treatments has been conducted. A simple method of vacuum impregnation of these resins into beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) and pine wood (Pinus sylvestris L.) samples followed by varied curing processes at ambient temperature, 103, and 200 °C has been performed. Based on the analysis of weight percent gain before and after leaching, treatment resistance to leaching, anti-swelling efficiency, wettability and decay durability measured for treated and untreated blocks after leaching with the white-rot fungus Coriolus versicolor for both wood species and the brown-rot fungi Poria placenta and Gloeophyllum trabeum for pine wood, it can be concluded that such treatment can be considered as potential valuable non-biocidal treatments.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Directorate General of Higher Education, Ministry of National Education of the Republic Indonesia (DIKNAS) for the master degree scholarship of Mahdi Mubarok. The authors want also to thank DYRUP S.A.S./PPG Industries for the financial support to this research. LERMAB is supported by a grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the “Investissements d’Avenir” program (ANR-11-LABX-0002-01, Lab of Excellence ARBRE).

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  1. Laboratory of Forest Product Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia

    Mahdi Mubarok, Yusuf Sudo Hadi, Jajang Suryana & Wayan Darmawan

  2. DYRUP S.A.S./PPG Industries, ZI Montplaisir, 25rue Jean le Rond d’Alembert, 81000, Albi, France

    Frédéric Simon

  3. Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherche sur le Matériau Bois, EA 4370-USC INRA, Faculté des Sciences et Technologies, Université de Lorraine, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoeuvre-Lès-Nancy Cedex, France

    Stéphane Dumarcay, Christine Gérardin & Philippe Gérardin

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Mubarok, M., Hadi, Y.S., Suryana, J. et al. Feasibility study of utilization of commercially available polyurethane resins to develop non-biocidal wood preservation treatments. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 75, 877–884 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-016-1128-9

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