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Discover Superwood, a revolutionary timber material by InventWood, stronger than steel and set to transform construction and manufacturing.

InventWood, a startup spun out of the university, is preparing to launch a new material known as Superwood – a wood-based product engineered to have a strength-to-weight ratio nearly ten times ...

The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. The round was led by the Grantham Foundation ...

Veneer is a very thin slice of solid wood that's been glued to a piece of plywood, particleboard, or fiberboard. At under ¹⁄₄₀ of an inch in thickness per sheet, veneers are pliable enough to fit ...

Explore the amazing process behind manufacturing wood veneer and chipboard. Watch as logs are transformed into thin layers of veneer and carefully crafted chipboard, each step requiring precision ...