PARTICLEBOARD

A generic term for a material manufactured from wood particles or other lignocellulosic material and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder.
- Flakeboard - A particle panel product composed of flakes.
- Oriented Strand Board - A type of particle panel product composed of strand-type flakes which are purposefully aligned in directions which make a panel stronger, stiffer, and with improved dimensional properties in the alignment directions than a panel with random flake orientation.
- Waferboard - A particle panel product made of wafer-type flakes. Usually manufactured to possess equal properties in all directions parallel to the plane of the panel.