Wood with improved fire performance is used in several interior and exterior applications. The most common applications are
Other uses are furnishing and decoration of public premises and restaurants, exhibition stands, museums, TV and theatre scenery, wooden scaffolding for both offshore, onshore and in mining applications, pallets for the chemical industry, and military use (e.g. packing cases).
In the USA fire retardant wood products are also used for structural purposes such as roof constructions. These applications are not used in Europe and care should be taken, since the US experience shows risks for degradation of the mechanical strength of the treated products, see Section 5.3.
Some practical examples of the use of fire-retarded wood products are presented below [17].
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