The current pandemic situation has a major impact on the economic sector, especially household income. Housewives often contribute to the family economic system, one of the ways is by utilizing forest products. This research aims to describe the role of housewives on harvesting timber and pine...

Black liquor is the result of pulp processing which contains several chemical compounds such as lignin, carbohydrate degradation products, resins and fatty acids. The main objective of the study was to determine the amount of lignin content contained in black liquor from the kraft process and its...

The raising stock of hardwood and the increasing popularity to build with timber are strong drivers to use hardwood as structural material on a regular basis. Despite its outstanding mechanical properties, economic boundary conditions in producing structural hardwood products consequence, however,...

Bamboo is a fast-growing biomaterial indigenous to Asia and Oceania that is also a high-yielding renewable resource. Bamboo, which has mechanical properties similar to wood, may be treated with currently available methods. The purpose of this study was to determine the characteristics chemical and...

Food security issues, particularly forest resources, have gained increasing worldwide attention over the past few years. Although studies have discussed various food security contributions, few have addressed the connection between community livelihood with food security, particularly in social...

In recent decades, the development of a modern industrial enterprise is impossible without considering the issue of complex processing or disposal of waste of the main production. This issue is very acute for the enterprises of the wood processing industry. The processing of wood waste should be...

The use of recycled raw materials and renewable sources are necessary for economical, social, environmental and technological development. In this context, this work aims to study the influence of two lignin types, one derived from pine (Lig I) and the other one from eucalyptus, (Lig II) on polymer ...

The aim of this study was finding out the effect of the thermal compression process on the roughness and color properties of Poplar (Populus spp.) solid wood as a fast-growing species. The clear samples were thermally compressed along 45 min. with four combinations of different pressure (1 and 2...

In this research, the application of the method in microphone array to the sound quality of the violin soundboard will be evaluated by the vibro-acoustic properties of the bamboo. The appropriate methods in corresponding process are composed of bamboo physical properties, texture, soundboard...

Illegal logging is a significant problem in Indonesia, which is one of the few countries with a large forest area. In this study, we investigate the factors that affect harvesting and supply of illegal timber from Indonesia to China and Japan. Moreover, we investigate the factors that lead to the...