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Luisa Hora de Carvalho
Professor of Wood Science and Engineering
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu Portugal
Impact of Urea-Formaldehyde Synthesis Parameters on Resin and Particleboard Properties
Luisa Hora de Carvalho is graduated in Chemical Engineering. She obtained an MSc in Wood Science from the Université Henri Poincaré Nancy I (currently Université de Lorraine) and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from FEUP. She is currently a coordinator professor at ESTGV(IPV-Polytechnic Institute of Viseu) where she teaches in the course of Licenciatura in Furniture Technology and Design and is the President of the Wood Engineering Department Council.
Dr. Byung-Dae Park
Professor, IAWS Fellow
Department of Wood and Paper Science
Kyungpook National University
Daegu, Republic of Korea
An Old Adhesive, but New Story on Urea-Formaldehyde Resins in Wood Bonding
Research Areas:
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Formaldehyde-Based Wood Adhesives
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Wood-Based Bio-Composites
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Nanocellulose-Based Nanocomposites
Dr. Tunga Salthammer
Deputy Director, Head of the Department “Material Analysis and Indoor Chemistry”, Adjunct Professor at TU Braunschweig, Germany and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
The Impact of Aldehydes and Organic Acids on Indoor Air Quality
Tunga Salthammer earned a Doctor of Natural Science degree in Physical Chemistry from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany. He joined the Fraunhofer WKI in 1990, from 1996 until 2021 he was head of the Department of Material Analysis and Indoor Chemistry.
Paschalis Tsirogiannis
Chemical Engineer
CHIMAR HELLAS S.A.
High Performance Formaldehyde-based Adhesives: How was the progress achieved?
For almost fifteen years now, he has been working at CHIMAR HELLAS S.A., currently holding the position of Senior Technical Representative. CHIMAR HELLAS S.A. is an industrial R&D company based in Thessaloniki, Greece, which provides technology for the production of adhesive resins and their additives, as well as technology for their application in the wood-based panel industry.