Fiberboard from cassava fiber

Abstract

This research aims to study the application of cassava fiber. The fibers are taken from cassava, and pineapple Head that 3 ratios are used to all of fiber mixing. The fiberboard production use 130°C of temperature with 20 – 50 kg/sq.cm of compressive pressure with 10 minutes per piece of rate. Their fiberboards have 681 – 724 kg/cu.m of density and 7.1 – 7.6 % of moisture. Resulting, the CF 05 ratio (cassava: urea is equal to 0.95:0.13) is suitable ratio which has good physical and mechanical properties.