Chances are as you’ve shopped for furniture deals you’ve
come across this puzzling expression, “engineered wood,” used to describe many
pieces’ construction and materials. Is this real wood? Is it durable? Today in
our blog we’ll solve this furniture-business mystery for you.
The Way Engineered Wood Is Made
Solid wood is a single piece of kiln-dried timber cut from a
tree, but the engineered wood used for affordable home furniture is a bit more complicated.
It consists of particles of wood bound together with strong adhesives. This
joins the layers at the particle or fiber level, much more than simply gluing
boards together. For your dining table, etc., engineered wood is topped off
with a veneer (top layer) of selective type wood. This construction makes
engineered wood even MORE stable than solid wood! There are other names for
engineered wood including man-made wood. However, it is real wood simply gone
through a man-made process. The same soft and hardwoods that go into lumber are
used to make engineered wood. Other names are composite wood and mass timber.
Engineered Wood Types
Types of engineered wood include perhaps the oldest and best
known, plywood, known for its strength and versatility as well as being
inexpensive. Other types of man-made wood include particleboard popular for
shelves and renowned for being lightweight, densified wood, and fiberboard.
Uses for Engineered Wood
Because a factory process creates engineered wood, it can be
tailor-made to ideally suit some home furniture’s uses. The size of the
engineered wood piece can be anything you need, not dependent on the size of a
source tree. When making engineered wood, the natural strength of wood fibers
is maximized, giving your queen bed or other piece even more durability than
solid antique wood! This wonder material is SO strong that it’s used in home
construction!
Have full confidence in the rock-hard engineered wood frames
you get with affordable home furniture from our Pennsauken, NJ area stores!
