What is particleboard (chipboard)?
A panel or core product composed of small particles of wood and wood fiber that are bonded together with synthetic resin adhesives in the presence of heat and pressure. • Flakeboard – A particle panel product composed of wood 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. Particleboard of any type is not an approved substrate for Nydree flooring.