Technology known as "CatLignin" has been created to produce reactive lignin from pulp industry side streams to be used as a replacement for toxic phenol compounds in wood adhesives that are widely ...

Researchers at Stockholm University have developed a resource-efficient method to produce new lignin-based materials that can be thermally reprocessed and used to substitute thermosetting resins and ...

Antimicrobial silver nanoparticles appear in a wide variety of products, including medical equipment and even socks. But silver nanoparticles can linger in the environment and may pose a threat to ...

Scientists have discovered that lignin, a plentiful byproduct of the pulp and paper industry, can be used to store an electrical charge. They've used the material to create a prototype lignin-based ...

What's the difference between kraft paper pulp and dissolving pulp? To start, you need to understand that under the bark of the tree, wood is composed of five main constituents -- water, cellulose, ...

Bags meet requirements of disintegrating to particles less than 2 millimeters in size in 180 days. Since the bags are made of all-natural components, they can be composted just like any other ...

First they poured it into rivers. Then they learned to burn it to power their mills. Now, paper producers in the forested regions of Northern Europe are looking closely at converting black liquor, a ...

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) and Prisma Renewable Composites announce that the companies have entered into an agreement giving YFAI exclusive use of Prisma’s lignin-based material in the ...

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed technology known as "CatLignin" to produce reactive lignin from pulp industry side streams to be used as a replacement for toxic phenol compounds ...

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) and Prisma Renewable Composites announced today that the companies have entered into an agreement giving YFAI exclusive use of Prisma’s lignin-based material in the ...