Abstract
In Taiwan many kinds of wood and bamboo are abundantly produced in the mountainous areas (about 70% of the total land area) and sugar-cane is one of the main agricultural products in the plains. Before 1945 Taiwan was under the dominion of Japan and found markets for its timber chiefly on the Japanese mainland. By 1949 small amounts of products such as glued veneer and bagasse-board were being marketed, but both the mechanical strength and the water resistance of these products were very poor because of the low quality of the adhesive agents. In 1950, however, the adoption of urea-formaldehyde resin as an adhesive agent, improved these products remarkably and the plywood and bagasse-board industries developed steadily from this point on. Although the handicraft industry employing polymer-containing bamboo has advanced greatly in the last five years, its production is still on a small scale. It is the plywood industry which is the principal consumer of wood, bagasse and bamboo. This industry not only supplies domestic plywood consumption, but also produces 594 million square feet annually for export (1964) which earns the equivalent of 23 million US dollars. Because of the good dimensional stability and suitably large size of its product,
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Wang, Ung-Ping
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- Radioisotope Laboratory, Union Industrial Research Institute, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan (China)
Citation Formats
Wang, Ung-Ping.
Republic of China (Taiwan) [Status and technology of polymer-containing fibrous materials in the Eastern Hemisphere].
IAEA: N. p.,
1968.
Web.
Wang, Ung-Ping.
Republic of China (Taiwan) [Status and technology of polymer-containing fibrous materials in the Eastern Hemisphere].
IAEA.
Wang, Ung-Ping.
1968.
"Republic of China (Taiwan) [Status and technology of polymer-containing fibrous materials in the Eastern Hemisphere]."
IAEA.
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title = {Republic of China (Taiwan) [Status and technology of polymer-containing fibrous materials in the Eastern Hemisphere]}
author = {Wang, Ung-Ping}
abstractNote = {In Taiwan many kinds of wood and bamboo are abundantly produced in the mountainous areas (about 70% of the total land area) and sugar-cane is one of the main agricultural products in the plains. Before 1945 Taiwan was under the dominion of Japan and found markets for its timber chiefly on the Japanese mainland. By 1949 small amounts of products such as glued veneer and bagasse-board were being marketed, but both the mechanical strength and the water resistance of these products were very poor because of the low quality of the adhesive agents. In 1950, however, the adoption of urea-formaldehyde resin as an adhesive agent, improved these products remarkably and the plywood and bagasse-board industries developed steadily from this point on. Although the handicraft industry employing polymer-containing bamboo has advanced greatly in the last five years, its production is still on a small scale. It is the plywood industry which is the principal consumer of wood, bagasse and bamboo. This industry not only supplies domestic plywood consumption, but also produces 594 million square feet annually for export (1964) which earns the equivalent of 23 million US dollars. Because of the good dimensional stability and suitably large size of its product, the plywood industry has sharply increased its scale of production in the last twenty years. However, the utilization of plywood is limited because of the availability of many other wood products which require little processing, e. g. for house-building materials (beams or posts), indoor and outdoor furniture, sports equipment (skis, golf clubs, baseball bats, boating equipment, etc. ) and others. To meet the demand for improved properties in the above-mentioned commercial products and to develop the use of the abundant but less valuable types of wood and of bamboo and bagasse, the project of processing wood-, bamboo-, and bagasse-plastic combinations with gamma radiation has been under way since 1965 at the Union Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) sponsored by the Government of the Republic of China. A detailed description of the status of production of polymer-containing fibrous materials in Taiwan is given here and covers four typical industries including plywood, wood-particle-board, wood-fibre-board and bagasse-board, respectively.}
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year = {1968}
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title = {Republic of China (Taiwan) [Status and technology of polymer-containing fibrous materials in the Eastern Hemisphere]}
author = {Wang, Ung-Ping}
abstractNote = {In Taiwan many kinds of wood and bamboo are abundantly produced in the mountainous areas (about 70% of the total land area) and sugar-cane is one of the main agricultural products in the plains. Before 1945 Taiwan was under the dominion of Japan and found markets for its timber chiefly on the Japanese mainland. By 1949 small amounts of products such as glued veneer and bagasse-board were being marketed, but both the mechanical strength and the water resistance of these products were very poor because of the low quality of the adhesive agents. In 1950, however, the adoption of urea-formaldehyde resin as an adhesive agent, improved these products remarkably and the plywood and bagasse-board industries developed steadily from this point on. Although the handicraft industry employing polymer-containing bamboo has advanced greatly in the last five years, its production is still on a small scale. It is the plywood industry which is the principal consumer of wood, bagasse and bamboo. This industry not only supplies domestic plywood consumption, but also produces 594 million square feet annually for export (1964) which earns the equivalent of 23 million US dollars. Because of the good dimensional stability and suitably large size of its product, the plywood industry has sharply increased its scale of production in the last twenty years. However, the utilization of plywood is limited because of the availability of many other wood products which require little processing, e. g. for house-building materials (beams or posts), indoor and outdoor furniture, sports equipment (skis, golf clubs, baseball bats, boating equipment, etc. ) and others. To meet the demand for improved properties in the above-mentioned commercial products and to develop the use of the abundant but less valuable types of wood and of bamboo and bagasse, the project of processing wood-, bamboo-, and bagasse-plastic combinations with gamma radiation has been under way since 1965 at the Union Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) sponsored by the Government of the Republic of China. A detailed description of the status of production of polymer-containing fibrous materials in Taiwan is given here and covers four typical industries including plywood, wood-particle-board, wood-fibre-board and bagasse-board, respectively.}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1968}
month = {Oct}
}