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- Coalition for Circular Choices: EURACTIV Op-edMay 25, 2023
- PRESS RELEASE: Long-term prospects for wood-based panels remain healthyMay 12, 2023
- EPF Press Conference @ InterzumMay 9, 2023
- EU Taxonomy: EPF supports the Construction 2050 Alliance Joint Statement on the draft Taxonomy Environmental Delegated ActMay 4, 2023
- Coalition for Circular Choices: Follow-up meeting with officials from the European Commission’s Secretariat-GeneralApril 12, 2023
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- Focus on the New European Bauhaus @ EPF Annual General Meeting 2023 on 23 JuneMay 9, 2023
- Save the date – EPF Annual General Meeting – Santiago de Compostela, Spain – 21-23 June 2023January 20, 2023
- 1st High Level Meeting of the European Wood Policy Platform (woodPoP) – Innsbruck, AustriaDecember 1, 2022
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- NEW Circular Choices for a competitive EU Bioeconomy: Growing a circular future [Executive Summary] [Full Version]
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- EPF Annual Report 2021-2022
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- EU Forest-based Industries 2050 : How Storage, Sequestration and Substitution (the 3S framework) make a positive climate contribution equivalent to 20% of all EU fossil emissions
- EU Forest-Based Industries 2050: a Vision of sustainable choices for a climate-friendly future [Vision 2050] [ FBI Vision 2050 Full]
- Action Guide on Formaldehyde signed on 28 Nov 2018 in Lisbon
Wood-based panel industry in Europe
What is a wood-based panel?
Wood-based panels combine wood in different forms (fibres, sawdust, chips, flakes and veneers) into sheets of differing thicknesses and constructions. Formed under heat and pressure typically with the addition of a synthetic adhesive (some fibreboard products utilise the natural binders found within wood), panels are engineered to provide a wide variety of strength and other physical attributes that enable them to satisfy a wide variety of end uses particularly in the building products and furniture industries.
The broad categories of wood-based panels manufactured by European Panel Federation members include:
Within these broad categories, there are a multitude of value added variants available with enhanced characteristics which is why today wood-based panels are used extensively in the home, in modern furniture and in construction. Although often hidden beneath coatings, veneers and other coverings, or embedded in the structural fabric of a building, wood-based panels are ubiquitous in our society.
