Purpose of review This review explores the opportunities and challenges associated with
using unconventional and underutilized wood sources, such as fast-growing species …

Lightweight panels, as an eco-friendly element for furniture manufacturing, offer several
potential market and production opportunities for many secondary woodworking companies …

The variety of wood-based products is huge; some are produced and marketed in large
volumes while others are for a very specific use and therefore also often only produced in …

This study was aimed to evaluate the position of lightweight panels and their application in
furniture production in Iran by investigating consumers' behavior and preferences. Here …

Wood sandwich panels are widely utilized in residential, commercial, and industrial settings
due to their excellent thermal insulation characteristics, ease of installation, and high …

The research results describing damage to wood-based lightweight panels, in which slender
core cells are made of paper impregnated with modified starch, have not been encountered …

Although lightweight particleboards have been commercially available for years, they still
have a number of disadvantages, including difficulty to process, brittleness, low impact …

Studies have shown that the proper selection of core materials in sandwich structures
improves the overall structural performance in terms of bending stiffness and strength. The …

Wood composites are materials made by bonding together wood and adhesives into a large
material that can be used for different purposes. Nowadays, lightweight materials play an …

Reducing the density of wood-based materials is a desirable research direction in the
development of the wood-based materials sector. Even though lightweight wooden …