Particle board, also known as chipboard, is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips or jutestick chips and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded.

What type of wood is chipboard?

Chipboard, which is often called particle board, as we've already mentioned, is part of the same family of engineered wood as plywood, but is made from either wood chips, wood shavings or sometimes even sawdust that's bound together using a synthetic resin or binder and then formed into boards.

Where is chipboard made?

Chipboard is made from waste wood. This wood waste could be wood chippings produced from the milling process, sawdust, or the leftovers from cutting or thinning forest branches. All these materials are made into a slurry by use of urea-formaldehyde and other glues depending on the intended use of the chipboard.