stands or panel

Met-Formed Partlclebosrd: A particleboard in which the coated particles are formed into a mat before being hot pressed.

Medlum Denslty Flberboard (MDF): A dry-formed panel product manufactured from wood fibers combined with a synthetic resin or other suitable binder and compressed to a density of from 3 | to 50 pounds per cubic foot in a hot press.

Medlum Density Overlay: Exterior type plywood finished with an opaque resin-treated fiber overlay to provide a smooth surface ideal as a paint base.

Orlented Strand Board (OSB): Structural wood panels manufactured from reconstituted, mechanically oriented wood strands bonded with resins under heat and pressure.

Oriented Wrferboard: Structural wood panels manu[actured from reconstituted mechanically oriented wafers bonded with resins under heat and pressure.

Overlald Plywood: Plywood panels with factory applied resin-treated fiber faces on one or both sides.

Particleboard: Nonveneer panels manufactured from reconstituted wood particles as opposed to wafers or strands, bonded with resins under heat and pressure.

Aggregate-Coated Panel: A panel coated with stone chips imbedded in a resin coating.

APA Performance-Rated Panels: Panel products developed by the American Plywood Association such as APA Rated Sheathing, APA Rated Sturd-l-Floor and APA Rated Siding.

Composite Panel: A veneer-faced panel with reconstituted wood core.

Decorative Panels: A panel of hardwood or softwood plywood, wood fiber substrate, hardboard or gypsum with a real wood face, a paper overlay, direct print, wood print, wallpaper or melamine finish.

Extruded Psrticleboard: A particleboard made by extrusion through a die.

Fiberboard: A general term that refers to any of various panel products such as particleboard, hardboard, chipboard or other type formed by bonding wood fibers by heat and pressure.

Hardboard: An engineered wood product made from natural wood fibers bonded together into dense panels by lignin, wood's own natural binder.

High Density Overlay: Exterior type plywood finished with a resin-impregnated fiber overlay.

Plywood: All veneer panels consisting of an odd number of cross-laminated layers, each consisting of one or more plies.

Story at a Glance

Definitions every counter person needs to know. removable for posting on bulletin board. . what makes one panel differ from another.

Structural Particleboard: Panels comprised of small particles usually arranged in layers by particle size, but not usually oriented.

Waferboard: Nonveneer panels manufactured from reconstituted wood wafers, as opposed to particles or strands, bonded with resins under heat and pressure.

These de/initions are based on materials provided by the American Hardboard 4ssociation, the American Plywood Association and the Particleboard/Medium Densitv Fiberboard lnstitute -Ed.

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