Chapter 19: Specialty treatments

Abstract

Many specialty treatments can be applied to wood to improve its performance. Treatments addressed in this chapter are those that make permanent changes in the shape of a wood product or improve properties, such as hardness, toughness, moisture resistance, dimensional stability, decay resistance, and mechanical or machining properties, through combinations with nonwood resources such as resins, polyethylene glycol (PEG), and acrylates.

Parent Publication

• Wood handbook: Wood as an engineering material

Citation

Ibach, R.E. 2021. Chapter 19: Specialty treatments. In: Wood handbook—wood as an engineering material. General Technical Report FPL-GTR-282. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory. 17 pp.