Composite wood products are manufactured in many different processes in which wood of various dimensions – boards, strips, veneer-like layers, strands, chips and fibres – is pressed and bonded together with synthetic-resin or mineral-based adhesives. In some cases, the adhesive properties of the material itself are activated. These production methods result in a significant improvement in quality compared with the source material. Faults in the timber, such as knots, splits, twisted growth, etc., can be obviated, resulting in a product of much greater strength. Composite wood materials are extremely homogeneous, with minimum fluctuations in the board properties. This, in turn, has a positive effect when determining admissible stresses. Borimir Radovic