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DIEFFENBACHER collaborates to recycle MDF

 Tuesday, November 1, 2022

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DIEFFENBACHER has partnered with 19 organisations from seven different nations to conduct a research project called EcoReFibre, in an effort to increase the sustainability of manufacturing of wood fibreboards like MDF and HDF (medium-density and high-density fibreboard). The project’s goal is to create fresh fibreboard by recycling wood fibres at the end of their useful lives. Wood fibreboard is currently solely made from fresh wood. In order to replace up to 25% of the fresh wood fibres used to make wood fibreboards with recycled secondary fibres, the project partners, including the producers of wood-based panels Homanit and Sonae Arauco, want to develop and test alternatives. The use of recycled wood fibres to create novel end products like biocomposites and insulating materials will also be investigated in five pilot projects.

“The industry urgently needs a sustainable recycling solution”

The European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation financing programme has provided 12 million euros to the four-year initiative, which began in May. DIEFFENBACHER has a long history of supporting sustainability and protecting Europe’s supply of new wood. The business is a pioneer in developing machinery that uses scrap wood as a raw source to create particleboard. Particleboard producers like Unilin, Pfleiderer, Rheinspan, and Fundermax have received various waste wood cleaning and wood recycling units from the company’s Recycling business section.

The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, which is the consortium’s leader, hosted a meeting to officially launch EcoReFibre in May. It will be completed in April 2026.

“More than 100 million cubic metres of wood fiberboard are produced worldwide every year—almost exclusively from fresh wood. The industry urgently needs a sustainable recycling solution here,” explains Dr. Matthias Graf, who is leading the project at DIEFFENBACHER. “With the innovative technologies and business models that we’ll develop as part of the EcoReFibre project, we’ll take the circular economy in the MDF/HDF industry a big step forward,” he says.

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