• 한국가구학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.15-25
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• 2016

Increasing concerns of environment need to make change furniture field to more environmentally friendly approach, such as reuse of by-products from wooden products. As it is, the methods of recycling wood for industrial purposes have the advantage of productivity and adaptability. However, the industrial way is required a certain production facility of processing wooden by-products and has possible hygienic problems due to contaminated sources. Many designers have developed their own methods for reuse of wood in unique and artistic ways. Even so, because of confined sources, it could be not enough supply. Therefore, I developed the design methodology utilizing wooden by-products from S Design Company to relieve former ways' problems. The design suggestion took materials from a safe and abundant source. The wooden leftover pieces were connected together with epoxy clay, so previous process traces of furniture are remained as a decorative factor. Moreover, the synthesized material was able to be processed by ordinary woodworking facilities without additional installations. In doing so, console table focused on a commercial purpose and dining table for an artistic objective were successfully fabricated as final suggestions. In consideration of the proposal using wooden furniture leftovers, diverse recycling designs should be investigated for future reference.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2009

In our country, most of the wood resources are imported. We faced a continuous rising of wood price by export country's some conditions and excess rising of transport charge, also a shortage of structural size members. In these situation, recycling or reuse of wood residues and wastes under wood processing industry, building construction and demolition is not a option but a prerequisite. In our country, there is a dearth of data on recycling or reuse of wood residues and wastes, so the investigation on the necessity of recycling or reuse of wood residues and wastes was conducted by using the foreign data and documents. First of all, fields and actual conditions for the domestic wood processing industry were surveyed. Then, kinds and signification of wood residues and wastes were organized. Later, the necessity and the signification of recycling or reuse of wood residues were investigated, and postulations for effective recycling and reuse were suggested. Above all, the necessity of grading standards for reuse or recycling and some important consideration for developing grading standards were emphasized. At last, foreign research tendencies and some applications on recycling or reuse of wood residues and wastes were supplemented.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.8-14
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• 2016

Increasing concerns of environment need to make change furniture field to more environmentally friendly approach, such as reuse of by-products from wooden products. As it is, the methods of recycling wood for industrial purposes have the advantage of productivity and adaptability. However, the industrial way is required a certain production facility of processing wooden by-products and has possible hygienic problems due to contaminated sources. Many designers have developed their own methods for reuse of wood in unique and artistic ways. Even so, because of confined sources, it could be not enough supply. Therefore, I developed the design methodology utilizing wooden by-products from S Design Company to relieve former ways' problems. The design suggestion took materials from a safe and abundant source. The wooden leftover pieces were connected together with epoxy clay, so previous process traces of furniture are remained as a decorative factor. Moreover, the synthesized material was able to be processed by ordinary woodworking facilities without additional installations. In doing so, console table focused on a commercial purpose and dining table for an artistic objective were successfully fabricated as final suggestions. In consideration of the proposal using wooden furniture leftovers, diverse recycling designs should be investigated for future reference.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.80-90
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• 2016

The idea of Sustainable, first mentioned in "Our Future (Bruntdland)" from the United Nations report released in 1987 has been highly affect design disciplines in developed countries in 21st century. It relocated industrial society and structure's attentions to nature and recourse conservation and reuse. Designed and manufactured products eventually disposed and it leads to waste of resources as well as creates environmental issues. Unfortunately, vast majority of designers starts designing without anticipation of this matter and produce more believing this leads to more sales. However shorter life of a product will create bigger increase of resource consumption and waste than, importance of re-usage and recycle will eventually increase. In modern furniture industry metal and plastics are frequently used beside wood that material has been diverse than in past. However, there are lack of plans and regulations of re-usage of those material due to difficulties of separating each different materials and collecting due to it's size. This study would like to look into recycling rate, methods and usage of three major materials (wood, metal, plastic) that is typically used in current furniture industries. Furthermore, see the potential of sustainable furniture by analyzing furniture practices made by each different recycled material from old furniture and what designers should consider to achieve feasibility of sustainable furniture.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.317-325
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• 2009

On the ground of that toy as for infants is an important tool for education as well as play and furthermore it has a great influences on their growth and development, the present study intends to analyze the characteristics of the infant-oriented toys made of wood, the environment-friendly material. Object of the study includes the infants aged 2 to 7, and the wooden toy not only in domestic also international cases are investigated and analyzed from the point of function and design in particular, and the infant-oriented wooden toy is finally characterized. The wooden toys are classified in 5 items according to functions. There are toy helping a physical development like small muscles, toy improving the creativity, toy assisting language learning like Korean & English, toy contributing to number understanding and counting, and toy for imitation of social roles. The characteristics of the wooden toy are that the natural color & grain of wood are shown first, and also the natural texture & aroma of wood are felt secondly, and geometric design and shape are often presented thirdly, and recycling is available fourthly, and it is expensive finally. In order to revitalize the wooden toys lagging behind the cheap and diverse toys made of plastic, it is highly needed that development of the environment-friendly painting, unique design, marketing strategy of enterprises and use of domestic wood material.

• 한국가구학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.63-71
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• 2006

This study was carried out to resplace traditional virgin wood fiber by recycled MDF-waste fiber for the manufacture of high density fiberboard. For the recycling, MDF waste was disintegrated for 10 minutes and beaten for 15 minutes. There was no difference in formaldehyde emission by desiccator method between virgin wood fiber and disintergrated and beaten MDF-waste fiber. Fiberboard which was maded from 100% of disintergrated and beaten MDF-waste fiber showed similar physical and mechanical properties to those of virgin fiber. The yield of recycled fiber from MDF waste was 85%.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2022

가구 산업은 부가가치 창출의 가능성이 높고 중소기업이 주축이 되어 있는 산업 특성상 일자리 창출 여력이 크다. 그러나, 최근 사용 후 가구의 처리 동향을 살펴보면 재사용 가치가 충분한 사용 후 가구마저도 파쇄되어 고형연료(SRF)로 활용되고 있는 사례가 많으며, 폐기물 처리업체는 지속적으로 감소하면서 폐목재 적체 현상으로 이어지고 있다. 이 같은 문제를 해결하기 위한 방안으로, 순환이용효율성이 높은 사용 후 가구 재제조 비즈니스 모델을 제안하고자 한다. 재제조는 자원 및 에너지 절감 효과가 크고, 고용창출 효과가 높다는 점에서 사용 후 가구에 적용 시 산업경제적 파급효과가 클 것으로 사료된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 해외의 사용 후 가구 재제조 과정을 분석하여 그 특성을 파악하고 이를 바탕으로 경제성 및 환경성 분석을 수행하였다. 경제성 분석 결과, 1인 사업장 기준으로 사용 후 가구 재제조를 통한 연간 예상수익은 약 104백만원, B/C 분석결과는 30으로 높은 사업성을 확보하는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 우리나라 1인 근로자 가구 연평균 소득의 3.11배(연평균 소득은 33백만원)에 달하는 수준이며, 같은 중량의 SRF로 재자원화할 경우의 수익 325천원보다 320배 높은 수준이다. 또한, 환경성 분석결과, 기존의 목재펠릿으로 가공하는 재자원화보다 재제조함으로써 얻을 수 있는 연간 온실가스 저감효과는 연간 2.2 tCO₂-eq.이며, 이는 소나무 937그루 또는 신갈나무 622그루가 연간 흡수하는 온실가스의 양과 유사한 수치이다. 이러한 연구결과는 폐기단계에서 경제적 환경적 효과를 고려한 재자원화 방법을 우선 적용하는 것이 중요함을 시사해준다.