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Michigan Technological University

2004

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Method Of Making Wood-Based Composite Board, Laurent Malanda Matuana, Julia A. King Mar 2004

Method Of Making Wood-Based Composite Board, Laurent Malanda Matuana, Julia A. King

Michigan Tech Patents

A wood composite board or panel, such as particleboard, fiberboard, oriented strand board or waferboard and a method of producing the same. The composite board or panel comprises a plurality of wood pieces, thermoset resin to bind the wood pieces and a filler having a high thermal conductivity. Examples of such a filler include natural and synthetic graphites, metal, carbon, silicon carbide and other similar compounds and their mixtures.