VIOBOND
Dare to be sustainable
The VIOBOND consortium aims to take essential commercialisation steps based on the natural wood component lignin, creating industrial technologies to significantly reduce the share of fossil raw materials in phenol formaldehyde resin, which is widely used in various everyday products.
Under the auspices of the VIOBOND project, a first-of-its-kind flagship plant producing industrial-scale lignin phenol-formaldehyde (LPF) resin will be built at the industrial hub of Latvijas Finieris during the next five years. Production capacity of environmentally friendly resin will reach 45,000 tons per year and renewable lignin will replace over a third of the fossil materials used traditionally.
Consortium members will use new resin for plywood manufacturing and coating, sandpaper adhesive and glass wool thermal insulation binder.
Project Partners
Nine partners from five European Union Member States have joined forces under the auspices of the VIOBOND project to establish a new, unique bio-based resin plant in Latvia.
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