Forest covers 4.06 billion hectares (ha) or 31% of the total land area worldwide, where
93%(3.75 billion ha) are natural regenerating forests and the remaining 7%(294 million ha) …

The potential of using ground birch (Betula verrucosa Ehrh.) bark as an eco-friendly additive
in urea-formaldehyde (UF) adhesives for plywood manufacturing was investigated in this …

Wood consumption is constantly being rationalized by the production of modern wood-
based materials, especially honeycomb plates. Due to the beneficial properties of the …

Sandwich panels manufactured from wood and wood-based materials promote optimal
management of natural resources, as they are obtained from renewable materials. For this …

There are a lack of proper adhesives that meet the wood industry requirements of being
environmentally friendly, low cost, and easy to use; thus, the application of thermoplastic …

Fast-growing tree species are important due to their short growth time before they are
harvested. Both the Poplar and Eucalyptus species are fast-growing trees. These two …

Using oil palm trunk (OPT) layered with empty fruit bunch (EFB), so-called hybrid plywood
enhanced with palm oil ash nanoparticles, with phenol-formaldehyde (PF) resin as a binder …

In this work, to better understand the bonding process of plastic plywood panels, the effects
of recycled low-density polyethylene (rLDPE) film of three thicknesses (50, 100, and 150 µm) …

In this work, the effects of wood species and thickness of low-density polyethylene (LDPE)
film on the properties of environmentally-friendly plywood were studied. Rotary-cut veneers …

The reinforcement of solid wood and wood-based composite materials is not a new idea, but
there have been very few studies about reinforcing poplar plywood with glass fiber fabric …