Bare particleboard can also be primed and painted. The finish paint should be a high-quality enamel, either semigloss or gloss. Q-I recently bought a house with pine paneling in the den and kitchen.

Most particleboard and MDF products are produced with interior-use glues and are not designed to get wet. Therefore, to ensure the best surface quality of panels, units should be protected against ...

Ordinarily, particleboard is made from wood chips that are bonded together using glue. Unfortunately, when used in building projects and otherwise, termites eat that wood – the same thing ...

"There's been quite a lot of additional scrutiny on formaldehyde lately, due to the FEMA situation and due to the state of California's activity with the CARB regulation," says T.J. Rosengarth, a ...

Kronospan, a leading producer of wood panel products, has acquired Woodgrain’s Particleboard facility in Island City, Oregon, which is the second particleboard facility purchase in less than a ...

It has been estimated that up to 85 percent of all wood materials (such as particleboard or plywood) contain adhesives that in turn contain formaldehyde, and the World Health Organization has ...

Job’s tears (Coix lacryma-jobi) stalk was used as a possible raw material for particleboard. A urea-formaldehyde (UF) resin was synthesised in the laboratory with resin solids at 50% content as a ...

LAC-MÉGANTIC, Que. – Particleboard and decorative panel manufacturer Tafisa Canada announced on April 23 the completion of a major investment to modernize its Line 1 continuous particleboard press.

Researchers at the University of Melbourne are taking grapevine waste and turning them into particle board, which is a staple of the construction industry. University of Melbourne's head of ...

We wouldn't recommend painting anything covered in fabric. And anything made of plastic can be tricky to paint and get right. The furniture we're talking about is made from laminate-covered ...