The go-to materials for building home furniture, décor and floors are composite wood products that come in large sheets. But the glues and resins holding together particleboard, fiberboard and plywood ...

While we may think of wood as being earthy and natural, wooden materials such as plywood and particleboard typically contain formaldehyde-based adhesives that give off toxic fumes. Such is not the ...

To complete your project the right way, you need to make sure you're using the correct adhesive. Chances are that you're ...

Writing in Nature, Yang et al. 1 describe a remarkable strategy for making a wood adhesive from lignin — the extraordinary polymer that strengthens and binds together plant cells. Lignin waste streams ...

Nails, screws, and other fasteners all have their place in the woodshop, but nothing holds pieces together quite so seamlessly as glue. Not only is wood glue cheap and easy to work with, but when ...