Panel products from Melia dubia
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36808/if/2022/v148i12/166520Keywords:
Wood based panels, particleboard, Medium density fiberboard (MDF), Laminated veneer lumber (LVL), Blockboard, Melia dubia.Abstract
The demand and supply gap for wood is showing an ever increasing trend and in order to counter act on this trend, efforts are made in all possible ways to substitute wood with suitable alternatives wherever possible and to shift the focus from natural forests to private plantations for sourcing the timber raw material for wood based industries. As part of this efforts, local timbers are being extensively studied for their suitability for producing wood based composites which could replace the solid wood without compromising in either aesthetic appearance or strength properties. Clones of Eucalyptus, Poplar, Silver oak etc. are a few timber species to name. Melia dubia is one such plantation timber suitable for farm forestry and agro forestry which is becoming trendy among present day farmers, private planters and wood based industries because of its fast growth, inherited anti-termite and anti-insect properties etc. This paper presents the research results of a series of studies conducted to find the suitability of Melia dubia for manufacturing Particleboard, Medium density fiberboards (MDF), Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) and Blockboard.Â
References
Anon (1999) Specification for Laminated veneer lumber. Bureau of Indian Standards IS: 14616, New Delhi.
Anon (2003) Specification for Medium density fibre board. Bureau of Indian Standards IS: 12406, New Delhi.
Anon (2005) Specification for particle boards of wood and other lignocellulosic materials (medium density) for general purposes. Bureau of Indian Standards IS: 3087, New Delhi.
Dhiman RC and Gandhi JN (2017) Comparative performance of Poplar, Melia and Eucalyptus based agroforestry systems. Indian journal of Agroforestry, 19 (2): 1-7.
Gamble SJ (2002), A Manual of Indian Timbers: An Account of the Growth, Distribution and Uses of the Trees and Shrubs of India and Ceylon with Description of Their Wood-Structure, International, Reprint, xxvi, 868.
Jorn Rathke, Gerhard Sinn, Michael Harm, Alfred Teischinger, Martin weigl and Ulrich Muller (2012). Design of particleboards," BioResources 7(3), 2970 - 2985.
K.C. Mathews, T.R. Narayana Prasad and S.S. Zoolagud. IPIRTI (2000), Studies on peeling, drying, gluing characteristics of Melia dubia (Malabar neem wood). IPIRTI Research Report No. 112/2000.
Marimuthu, P. & Sundarakumar, D. & Muruganantham, S. & Parthiban, K.T.. (2015). Melia Dubia - A potential short rotation wood species for pulp and paper industries. IPPTA: Quarterly Journal of Indian Pulp and Paper Technical Association. 27. 88-96.
Parthiban KT and Fernandaz CC (2017) Industrial agroforestry: Status and development in Tamil Nadu. Indian Journal of Agroforestry, 19(1): 1-11.
Parthiban KT, Bharathi AK, Seenivasan R, Kamala K, Rao MG (2009) Integrating Melia dubia in agroforestry farms as an alternate pulpwood species, APA News, 34:.3-4.
Paul A. Cooper, John J. Balatinecz and Steven J. Flannery. Agricultural waste materials for composites: A Canadian reality. Paper presented at centre for management technology global panel based conference, Kuala Lumpur, 18-19 October, 1999.
Prakash V, Uday DN, Sujatha D, Kiran MC, Narasimhamurthy (2019) Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) from Fast Growing Plantation Timber Species Melia dubia. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR). 8(4):1721-1723.
Prakash. V, Uday DN, Sujatha D and Kiran MC (2017). Physical and Mechanical Properties of Particle Board from Lops and Tops of Melia dubia. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) 6(5):1499-1502.
Saravanan V, Parthiban K T, Kumar P, Marimuthu P (2013) Wood characterization studies on Melia dubia cav. for pulp and paper industry at different age gradation. Research Journal of Recent Sciences, 2, 183-188.
Setunge S, Wong KK, and Jollands M (2009). Economic and environmental benefits of using hardwood sawmill waste as a raw material for particleboard production. Water Air and Soil Pollution 9, 485-495.
Singh MP, Prakash V, Uday DN, Sujatha D, Kiran MC, Narasimhamurthy (2020). Block Board from Melia dubia. International Journal of Forestry and Wood Science, 7(2): 096-100.
Uday D.N, Mamatha B. S, Prakash. V, Sujatha D and Kiran M. C IPIRTI (2017), Study on utilization of plantation grown timber species Melia dubia for Medium density fiberboard. IPIRTI Research Report No.202/2017.
Warrier RR, “Melia dubia Cav.,†Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education, Coimbatore, India, 2011.
Downloads
Downloads
Additional Files
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Unless otherwise stated, copyright or similar rights in all materials presented on the site, including graphical images, are owned by Indian Forester.