SOLID LUMBER - is rapidly becoming scarce and expensive due to logging and the long periods

of time it takes for most trees to grow. There are many different timbers on the market that range in
price, characteristics and strength.

Strand Woven Bamboo

Lumber

Bamboo lumber is pressed from bamboo strips

which already have been well treated, including
boiling, drying, gluing. Bamboo lumber can be
milled for the building and projects as hardwood.
Bamboo lumber is harder than most of wood
because of its high density 750 kg / m3 in
horizontal and vertical, 1200 kg / m3 in strand
woven. Bamboo lumber is pressed with low VOC
resin and 100% renewable resources - bamboo
under high pressure and high temperature.
Bamboo lumber can be pressed in horizontal grain,
vertical grain and strand woven. Horizontal or
vertical is most used in the interior projects and
buildings. Strand woven is used for outside
building, like house, wall panels. Bamboo lumber in
strand woven is cold pressed process, durable and
consistent quality.
Bamboo lumber is used across the world in
construction and is becoming increasingly more
popular for building purposes due to its versatility,
beauty, sustainability, flexibility and its incredible
strength.

Bamboo lumber comes in a variety of dimensions

and lengths. Colors include natural and caramel.
The two categories that timber can be put into are hardwoods and softwoods and the two can be
defined by their differences in the woods microstructure which determines its density and strength.
This timber is an excellent choice for any sort of woodwork but if you want a good quality timber with
minimum flaws, be prepared to pay a bit extra due to the reasons above. Cheaper timbers such as pine
can be good but don't compare in aesthetics and quality to dearer timbers.
Lumber/ timber in Australian English, British English, Hiberno-English, and New Zealand English is wood
that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
Lumber may be supplied either rough-sawn, or surfaced on one or more of its faces. Besides pulpwood,
rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making and other items requiring additional cutting and
shaping. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods; but it is also readily available in softwoods,
such as white pine and red pine, because of their low cost. Finished lumber is supplied in standard
sizes, mostly for the construction industryprimarily softwood, from coniferous species, including pine,
fir and spruce (collectively spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for highgrade flooring.
Lumber is mainly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well. It is classified more
commonly as a softwood than as a hardwood, because 80% of lumber comes from softwood.

ENGINEERED WOOD - also called composite wood, man-made wood, or manufactured

board, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding or fixing the
strands, particles, fibers, or veneers or boards of wood, together with adhesives, or other methods of
fixation[1] to form composite materials. These products are engineered to precise design specifications
which are tested to meet national or international standards. Engineered wood products are used in a
variety of applications, from home construction to commercial buildings to industrial products. [2] The
products can be used for joists and beams that replace steel in many building projects

PLYWOOD

Plywood is another manufactured board that it is

made from layers of solid timber veneer that are
usually about 3 millimetres thick. Because it is
made in layers it is incredibly strong but also light in
weight.
The interior layers of these boards are usually made
from an inexpensive wood while the outer veneer
layers are made from more expensive timber to
give the board a nice wood grain appearance.
This type of board is manufactured from layers of
veneer that are glued together and compressed
under heat, they are then cut into appropriate sizes.
With each new layer of veneer added the grain is
rotated at 90 degrees each time, this is done to
maximise the boards strength and to prevent
warping and twisting.

PARTICLE BOARD

This manufactured board is used as a more

affordably option to solid timber or as an alternate
to other manufactured boards. You are most likely
to see this wood used in places such as school
desks, furniture, wood panelling and some flooring
although usually only the faces are shown due to
the unattractive look of the edges.
Particle board is a manufactured board that is often
used in furniture because it can be made cheaply
and is more affordable than solid timber but has a
similar look.
It is mostly found in furniture that require large
pieces such as table tops, desks and TV cabinets,
this saves people from having to bond two pieces of
timber together to achieve the same size.
This type of manufactured board is made from wood
chips which are glued together and then
compressed under heat in a large board shape, it is
then dried and cut into various sizes to be sold.
These boards can either be bought bare or it can be
covered with thin sheets of veneer or a plastic
laminate, these two materials give the board a solid

timber look and feel while costing marginally less.

Particle board is a good alternate option when
buying furniture to a budget because it gives the
impression of solid timber and it usually lasts for
long periods of time if looked after and taken care
of well, like all solid timber.

RECONSTITUTED PANELS

Particleboard, waferboard and OSB look like

first cousins to someone who doesnt know better, but they really have a lot less in
common than meets the eye. The manufacturing process is superficially the same
for all three: wood is mechanically reduced to small pieces (particles, wafers or
strands) that are carefully sorted for size and shape. Once dried to a specified
moisture content (usually around 3%), the pieces are coated or blended with wax
and resins, then formed into panels under heat and pressure. Panels are then
trimmed to size, stacked, banded, wrapped and shipped.
Waferboard

Waferboard belongs to the subset of reconstituted

wood panel products called flakeboards. It is a
structural material made from rectangular wood
flakes of controlled length and thickness bonded
together with waterproof phenolic resin under
extreme heat and pressure. The layers of flakes are
not oriented, which makes it easier to manufacture.
Waferboard is used as a material to build cheap
furniture. This type of furniture is usually laminated.
Also known as oriented strand board or OSB,
waferboard is a wood panel composed of flakes that
are compressed to create a sturdy and workable
building material. This type of chipboard is classified
as one example of particleboard and can sometimes
be used in building projects in the place of
conventional plywood panels. While normally known
as particleboard in the United States, panels of this
type are often referred to as Sterling board in the
United Kingdom.
The creation of waferboard involves compressing
individual flakes into a flat panel. In order to achieve
the shape and consistency desired, the wood flakes
are joined with the use of resins that effectively bind
the flakes or wafers to one another. The panel is
subjected to a high degree of heat and pressure,
which helps to seal the bond and also compress the
surface of the board until it is flat. As a result, the
panels are relatively strong and can be used for a
number of building projects.
One of the more common applications of

waferboard is in the creation of inexpensive but

functional pieces of furniture. Items such as
television stands, computer desks, and various
types of shelving can be created using this type of
board. The pieces are often covered with some sort
of laminate designed to mimic the appearance of
wood grain. Furniture of this kind is often sold in
easy to assemble kits, and is often sold at discount
retail stores.

RECON VENEER

Recon veneers is short for reconstituted wood also

know as recomposed, man-made or manufactured
veneers.
Recon wood veneers are made with actual wood
from fast growing trees in managed forests. Recon
veneers are a renewable product and also it is an
environmentally friendly alternative to some of the
rarer and extremely expensive veneers.
WiseWood Veneer is pleased to offer our
reconstituted veneer as an environmentally friendly
alternative to some of the more rare and expensive
exotic wood species. Its also a great option for
those projects where veneer color and consistency
is critical from start to finish. Made with fast growing
renewable natural wood sources, reconstituted
veneer is produced by laminating different colors of
dyed veneer in alternating layers. This process
produces natural looking wood grains and colors
thought only to exist in nature until now.
Echo Wood Reconstituted Veneers provides endless
opportunities to create the look of domestic, exotic
and rare species. The process of reconstituting
common wood fiber through computer design
technology allows us to reproduce the natural
appearance of nearly any species. Echo Wood
reconstituted veneer products echo nature's most
desired and rare species without impacting the
sustainability of the great old growth forests.
Reconstituted veneers use common wood fiber from
well managed and plantation-grown forests and by
doing so we draw on an excellent renewable fiber
resource for the production of Echo Wood. These
reconstituted veneers and edge tapes provide a
practical alternative to achieving the look of
expensive and rare woods, by providing the highest
quality, color stabilized, defect free architectural
veneers and edge tapes. Board, bagasse,

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pressed (without, Lath, fiber, Medium density
fiberboard (MDF), Particleboard, Reconstituted wood
panels, Strandboard, oriented, Wafer-board, Wall
tile, fiberboard, Wallboard, wood fiber: cellular fiber
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