BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCE
A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
The properties of particleboard produced from l-,2-,3- and 4-year old Bambusa vulgaris Schrad, the commonest village bamboo in Malaysia, were ascertained. Culms of two years old or more were found to yield good particles for particleboard manufacture. Three particleboards with the density of 561,641 and 721 kg/m3 were produced by using urea formaldehyde resin as the binder at the resin contents of 6, 8 and 10%, pressing time of 6 minutes and temperature of 160°C. All the boards tested passed the minimum requirements of the British Standards BS 5669-1989.
This indicates the suitability of this bamboo species for the manufacture of particleboard.
Albizia falcataria wood has been studied for the suitability of manufacturing cement bonded particleboard. This species failed to produce board in workable conditions with the untreated chips. A substantial improvement of properties was observed when the boards were made with the chips treated in cold water. The boards were tested for determining the strength and dimensional stability. The product was found to be dimensionally stable after soaking in water. Even though bending strength was found to be low, the tensile strength passed the standard specification. Cement bonded particleboard made with this species can be used where dimensional stability is necessary.
The paper describes particleboard making characteristics of three common bamboo species, namely, Banibusa balcooa, Banibusa vulgaris and Melocaiina baccifera grown in Bangladesh. Urea formaldehyde resin was used as the binder. The particleboards from these bamboo species compare almost an equal strength properties with those from wood species.
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