US Patent Issued to FIBERBOARD on April 21 for "Method and processing system for reducing volatile organic compounds from wood chips" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,954, issued on April 21, was assigned to FIBERBOARD GMBH (Baruth, Germany).

"Method and processing system for reducing volatile organic compounds from wood chips" was invented by Andre Hennig (Baruth, Germany), Christian Dumichen (Baruth, Germany), Martin Schwendy (Baruth, Germany), Bernd Bungert (Berlin) and Thomas Heine (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for reducing volatile organic compounds (VOC) from wood chips for wood fibre production in a processing system, at least comprising the following consecutive steps: a first thermal treatment of the wood chips in a first thermal treatment devi...