In the Asia Pacific region, where plywood is glued together mainly with
melamine urea resins, the requirements for low formaldehyde emissions from the
plywood are increasingly stringent, imposed by the key Japanese markets. For
DSM’s melamine customers, this presented the problem of how to bind the
formaldehyde into the melamine urea resin so as to lower emissions and reduce
the potential danger from the chemical. DSM’s Melamine Skill Centre was able
to determine how this could be achieved for various qualities of wood,
enabling customers to continue to do business in the Asia Pacific region, and
providing end customers there with the safest plywood available.
DSM’s Melamine Skill Centre is part of
DSM Melamine.
