In:
Forest Products Journal, Forest Products Society, Vol. 68, No. 1 ( 2018-01-01), p. 86-95
Abstract:
The Michigan furniture industry produces & gt;150 tons/day of wood-based waste that can be upcycled into a wood–polymer composite (WPC). This study investigated the viability of using furniture waste as a feedstock for 3-D printer filament to produce furniture components. The process involves grinding and milling board scraps made of both LDF-MDF-LDF (where LDF is light-density fill and MDF is medium-density fill) and melamine-particleboard-paper impregnated with phenolic resins, premixing wood-based powder with the biopolymer polylactic acid, extruding twice through open source recyclebots to fabricate homogeneous 3-D printable WPC filament, and printing with open source fused filament fabrication–based 3-D printers. The results indicate that there is a significant opportunity for waste-based composite WPCs to be used as 3-D printing filament.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0015-7473
DOI:
10.13073/FPJ-D-17-00042
Language:
English
Publisher:
Forest Products Society
Publication Date:
2018
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2066349-3
SSG:
23
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