Technology: Composite Wood Products and Their Use in Building

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...