ARBOFORM® – Liquid Wood: The root of all TECNARO innovations

The groundbreaking innovation ARBOFORM® – also known as ‘liquid wood’ – laid the foundation for the establishment of TECNARO GmbH as early as 1998. This unique bioplastic is based on lignin, a renewable raw material available in virtually unlimited quantities.

Lignin is a by-product of the paper and pulp industry, where it is produced in quantities of over 50 million tonnes annually during the pulping of wood.

ARBOFORM® consists entirely of renewable raw materials, is biodegradable and revolutionises the way the timber and plastics industries work together. For the timber industry, ARBOFORM® enables the cost-effective production of precision-moulded timber components. At the same time, it offers the plastics processing industry the opportunity to replace petroleum-based materials with a technically advanced bioplastic – whilst also opening up new fields of application that were previously unattainable with conventional plastics.

With its unrivalled precision and freedom of design, ARBOFORM® is the material of choice, for example, for high-safety moulded parts in the automotive industry, right up to Formula 1. Its wood-like properties, such as excellent acoustics, also make it the ideal material for loudspeakers, headphones or musical instruments such as recorders. Furthermore, ARBOFORM® can replicate the property profiles of tropical woods, making it ideally suited for applications in automotive interiors.

ARBOFORM® conserves valuable resources such as crude oil and tropical timber stocks whilst offering the highest level of technical performance. ARBOFORM® is the perfect symbiosis of sustainability and innovation for your mass-produced products.