Pressed wood, also known as presswood, is any engineered wood building and furniture construction material made from wood shavings and particles, sawdust or wood fibers bonded together with an adhesive under heat and pressure.
This makes it different from densified wood, which is solid wood that has been compressed to increase its strength and possibly modify other properties.
Pressed wood can also contains strips of wood veneers. Panels that are laminated from sheets of veneer are usually known as plywood.
Manufacturing process
Preparations of the veneers
The creation of pressed wood begins with the veneers being placed in a rotary dryer. This dryer is typically heated with steam at around . This process prepares the veneers for the humidifying process in which the veneers are then placed into humidification chambers. These humidification chambers have a precise moisture content. This is because of how cheap pressed wood can be and how pallets can easily be constructed out of pressed wood.