Claims
- 1. A process for producing shaped articles, which comprises combining a formaldehyde-free aqueous binder comprising:A) a free-radically polymerized polymer containing from 5 to 100% by weight of units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated acid anhydride or from an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid whose carboxyl group can form an anhydride group, and B) an alkanolamine having at least two hydroxyl groups, with fibers or chips to form a shaped article, wherein said binder has a property of drying at 50° C. in 72 hours to a film from 0.3 to 1 mm in thickness and, following a subsequent 15 minute cure at 130° C. in air, and then aging in distilled water at 23° C. for 48 hours, has a gel content of above 50% by weight.
- 2. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fibers or chips consist of renewable raw materials.
- 3. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fibers are natural or synthetic fibers or mixtures thereof.
- 4. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fibers or chips are of wood.
- 5. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shaped articles have a minimum thickness of 1 mm.
- 6. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the shaped articles are woodbase chipboards.
- 7. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the weight of binder, calculated as total weight of A)+B), is from 0.5 to 40% by weight, based on the fibers or chips.
- 8. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the binder includes less than 1.5% by weight, based on A)+B), of a phosphorus-containing reaction accelerant.
- 9. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein polymer A) contains from 5 to 100% by weight of units derived from maleic acid or maleic anhydride.
- 10. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the alkanolamine is a compound represented by the formula: whereinR1 is hydrogen, C1-C10 alkyl, or C1-C10 hydroxyalkyl, and R2 and R3 are each, independently, C1-C10 hydroxyalkyl.
- 11. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the alkanolamine is triethanolamine.
- 12. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the molar ratio of the carboxyl groups and anhydride groups, wherein 1 anhydride group is calculated as 2 carboxyl groups, of A) to the hydroxyl groups of B) is within the range from 20:1 to 1:1.
- 13. A process as claimed in claim 1, wherein the fibers or chips are coated or mixed with the binder and pressed at temperatures within the range from 50 to 300° C. and pressures within the range from 2 to 1000 bar to form shaped articles.
- 14. Shaped articles obtained by a process as claimed in claim 1.
- 15. A formaldehyde-free aqueous binder comprising:A) a free-radically polymerized polymer containing from 5 to 100% by weight of units derived from an ethylenically unsaturated acid anhydride or from an ethylenically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid whose carboxyl group can form an anhydride group, and B) an alkanolamine having at least two hydroxyl groups, wherein said binder has a property of drying at 50° C. in 72 hours to a film from 0.3 to 1 mm in thickness and, following a subsequent 15 minute cure at 130° C. in air, and then aging in distilled water at 23° C. for 48 hours, has a gel content of above 50% by weight.
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Parent Case Info
This application is a Continuation of application Ser. No. 09/101,805 filed Aug. 21, 1998, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,099,773 which is a 371 of PCT/EP97/00768 filed Feb. 19, 1997.
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