Present situation of research and utilization of new products for wood preserving treatment.

Abstract

The increasing concearning on issues related to environment protection and wood treatment workers and preserved wood users brought the necessity of developing new products. Thus, a bibliographic research was done in order to verify research tendencies and to increase the knowledge about products already on the market. Based on this facts, this work presents information about products, specially of substances extracted from plants; the use of microorganisms as protection agents; inhibiting substances of the enzymatic action of organisms that attack wood; and other environmentally less aggressive products. It can be concluded that the aiming of the research has objectified always the reduction of the ambient impacts and the cares with the health of the people and other animals. Moreover, a point that it needs to be developed is the methodologies of test of the new products for the reduction of the time and the costs for the register of the same ones, without that the quality of the new products for the wood is compromised.