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Particleboard with veneer. Particle board, also known as particleboard or chipboard, is an engineered wood product, belonging to the wood-based panels, manufactured from wood chips and a synthetic, mostly formaldehyde based resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed under a hot press, batch- or continuous- type, and produced. [1]
Steiner opened his carpenter's shop in 1944, and, in the middle of the 1950s, while looking for a simple means of joining the recently introduced chipboard, invented the Lamello joining system. In the succeeding years there followed further developments such as the circular saw and the first stationary biscuit (plate) joining machine in 1956 ...
Chipboard may refer to: Particle board, a type of engineered wood known as chipboard in some countries; See also. White-lined chipboard, a grade of paperboard;
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the high demand for paper and the relatively low cost and availability of the native forests made the establishment of a woodchipping industry a viable proposition. Conversely, the establishment of a woodchipping industry made it economically feasible to clearfell areas of mixed or substandard forest that could ...
Solid bleached board, made purely from bleached chemical pulp and usually has a mineral or synthetic pigment. Solid unbleached board, typically made of unbleached chemical pulp. White lined chipboard, typically made from layers of waste paper or recycled fibers, most often with two to three layers of coating on the top and one layer on the ...
For a time, it was the highest-grossing game in the world, generating more than $5 billion during its first full year — all while being free to play. On certain days, it brought in $100 million.
1912 – Stainless steel invented by Harry Brearley; 1916 – Method for growing single crystals of metals invented by Jan Czochralski; 1919 – The merchant ship Fullagar has the first all welded hull. 1924 – Pyrex invented by scientists at Corning Incorporated, a glass with a very low coefficient of thermal expansion
A combination between a whiteboard and a cork bulletin board Original early 1960s ad for "Plasti-slate", the first whiteboard/dry erase board invented by Martin Heit. It has been widely reported that Korean War veteran and photographer Martin Heit and Albert Stallion, an employee at Alliance, a leading flat rolled steel sheet supplier should be credited with the invention of the whiteboard in ...