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Diffenbacher

Supports Wood DIEFFENBACHER_TH-Rosenheim

Fibre Insulation

Materials

Research

Dieffenbacher has supplied a 120 m-long
flash tube dryer to the Laboratory for
Wood Materials Technology at Rosenheim
Technical University of Applied Sciences

(TH Rosenheim) for its new research facility
focused on drying and gluing hardwood
fibres used to produce biopolymer-bound
wood fibre insulation materials.
“Our new Dieffenbacher fibre dryer is
specially designed for drying hardwood
fibres and the use of biopolymers, i.e.,

adhesives made from renewable raw
materials or residual materials. It will
significantly accelerate our research,”
explains Prof. Dr. Andreas Michanickl,
Head of the Laboratory for Wood Materials
Technology at TH Rosenheim.
“This new facility more closely
simulates the industrial process, which
significantly improves the transferability

of our research into practice. We’ll on hardwood fibres,” reports Thomas material and its lower moisture content,
also be able to make more accurate Schmid, the university research assistant the lower electrical and thermal energy
predictions about the scalability of our responsible for the project. requirements for the production of fibres
research,” he says. “We expect these hardwood-based from hardwood and the optimised process
“The primary aim of our research is fibre insulation materials will be at least technology.
to provide, test and optimise a process equivalent to softwood-based products The new drying system will be used
technology that enables the production of but cheaper to produce,” he adds. to further optimise the production of

innovative, competitive biopolymer-bound The cost savings would come from wood fibre insulation materials and
wood fibre insulation materials based the lower costs for the hardwood raw similar products.