Abstract
With regard to countermeasures to environmental disruption and exhaustion of natural resources, industrial utilization of wood-based materials is emphasized in recent years. Therefore, upgrading of forming techniques of wood-based materials is recognized to be an effective solution. For that reason, current trends and future issues of forming techniques are reviewed in this paper. Deformation processing using superplastic behavior of wood-based materials has been developed. As a key technique of deformation processing, a mechanism for improvement of fluidity is introduced. For further progress in this new manufacturing method, modification of raw material and improvement in deformation technique including mold technology are also required.
