Apinhar: compósito de pinha aplicado ao ecodesign

Abstract

The search for more sustainable products and processes has generated a growing wave of research and projects that seek to mitigate the environmental impacts caused by exacerbated consumption. The timber industry, especially the planted forest sector, has been making large investments that seek to minimize the impacts and waste that it encompasses. Thus, the present research was based on experimentation and proposition of uses for the pine cones from Pinus trees, which are currently treated as waste by the sector, but which have great productive and commercial potential, in addition to being beneficial to nature, for It is a natural, biodegradable and easily renewed material. Together with the pine cone fiber, castor resin was used as a binder, which also has biodegradable properties and is a renewable source, for the production of composites, which were subjected to tests and analyzes to evaluate their productive and commercial potential. Observing the visual, tactile and olfactory aspects, it was considered the best composition to propose alternatives for commercial use, being the choice of this research the proposition of a decorative coating for internal environments.