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Jowat Magazine 2015-01 EN

Wood | Furniture | Construction Industry Another side of adhesives: used The challenge. Basically, the idea of using adhesives as spot repair compound for instance to remedy surface defects is not new. Challenging for this highly demaning application are the numerous variables: the expected high quality of the end product, the processing equipment, and the adhesive technology. In detail, this process covers the repair of a defect in the production of real wood parquet which may concern a minute to large surface, but which in all cases will be visible. An application which did not even exist some years ago. Parquet with clearly visible defects, for instance knotholes or decorative cracks, has up to now been discarded as waste. What prompted this development is a recent design change in interior finishing of homes: the trend towards vintage optics, to country style flooring with visibly repaired “defects“ which the end user is now accepting or even looking for as visual style elements. Natural wooden textures with a real tactile effect allow high-quality parquet flooring to look like old planking – an exciting contrast to modern interior furniture design. The requirement. Apart from the craftsmanship necessary for repairing wooden floors, the sector wood cosmetics has currently also seen a development of semi- or fully automatic machines which guarantee damage repair and optical corrections on an industrial scale, in high quality and with a large potential 08 Bonding is not always a matter for two surfaces, sometimes the process of adhesive application requires only one side. An example is the manufacture of real wood parquet, and here specifically the aspects appearance and repair. In this case adhesive is not used in the conventional sense, but for spot repairs and as surface finishing component.

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