Wood Flour

Scope: Wood flour can be used as:

• base for thermoplastic wood-polymer composites (WPC),
• a smoking agent for fish and meat,
• additive for fired ceramics and bricks,
• additive for adhesive compositions based on natural and synthetic adhesives,
• an additive to plaster and finishing construction mixtures (dry mixes),
• mortars, pastes; concretes, putties, etc.,
• an additive in porous abrasive products,
• raw material for production of activated coals,
• raw material for obtaining active wood extracts and extracts (oak, fir, juniper, etc.),
• base for press powders and compounds based on thermosetting resins (phenolics, etc.),
• additive to compounds based on epoxy, polyester, etc. resins,
• base for xylolite (wood composite material on magnesia binder),
• component in the production of pigmented titanium dioxide,
• component and raw material for the production of various explosives,
• filler in the production of adhesive mastics and sealants (parquet, roofing materials, etc.),
• base for filters and filtering materials,
• additive in the production of steels and ferroalloys,
• an additive to molding sands for the production of foundry molds,
• additive to drilling muds and plugging materials used in oil production,
• raw material for production of sorbents, including for removal of oil pollution from roads, water reservoirs, etc.
• additive in concrete and plasterboard, concrete and composite road surfaces,
• a cleaning agent in the leather and fur industry,
• soft grinding, polishing and cleaning agent in metalworking, e.g. in the manufacture of hardware and bearings, fittings, etc. (deburring),
• a loosening agent to improve the structure of heavy poor soils in crop production (together with chalk and other limestone),
• base of substrates for industrial cultivation of mushrooms,
• base for the manufacture of pet products (sorbent bedding),
• additive in some mixed fodders,
• an additive for coating welding electrodes (electrode cellulose),
• filler for natural and synthetic linoleum and Lincrusta.