RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADVANCES IN WOOD FUNCTIONAL MODIFICATION IN CHINA

摘要

Since 1998 China carried out natural forest protective project, the crude wood supply in China is heavily dependent on international market. In order to solve the problem of the supply and demand of wood, the quick-growing plantations of aspen wood, eucalyptus, Chinese fir, and masson pine have been began to exploit in China. These tree species usually are low quality, functional modification thus must be performed to make better. The advances in functional modification on wood in China, such as color processing, softening, size stabilization, strengthening, fire-retardant treatment and preservative treatment in resent 10 years, has been summarized in present paper.