OSB Plywood

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General Overview
Oriented strand board, or OSB, ois an engineered wood product formed by layering strands of wood in specific orientations. In appearance it may have a rough and variegated surface with the individual strips (1 inch by 6 inches) each) lying unevenly across each other.OSB is manufactured in wide mats from cross-oriented layers of thin, rectangular wooden strips compressed and bonded together with wax and resin adhesives (95% wood, 5% wax and resin). The layers are created by shredding the wood into strips, these are sifted and then oriented on a belt or wire cauls. The mat is made in a forming line, the layers are built up with the external layers aligned in the panel's strength axis with internal layers cross-oriented.
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Treat like any other plywood product. OSB is usually the cheapest ply product, most commonly used in home building. It's sometimes touted as a green product because it uses fast growing trees with little waste produced in manufacturing. Due to the type of resins used in wood-based structural use panels like OSB, they emit very low levels of formaldehyde. The emission levels have been found to be not more than 10% of the criteria of key national standards.
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