Primary wood processing results in formation of large amounts of removed bark, representing an important unused residue. In future, it would be more reasonable to use bark not only for energetic purposes, but above all in high added value products. Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) bark was liquefied and applied for preparation of polyurethane wood coatings. The bark was liquefied in glycerol, the mixture of polyethylene glycol and glycerol, and in ethylene glycol. The best results were obtained using the bark liquefied in the mixture of polyethylene glycol and glycerol. Just to compare, in addition to this coating, commercial polyurethane wood coating was also characterised. All characterisation tests were performed according to standard procedures. Compared to the properties of the commercial polyurethane finish, the results exhibited somewhat better properties of the liquefied bark based coating, due to higher content of isocyanate.
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