WHAT IS PARTICLE BOARD DEFINITION OF PARTICLE BOARD Particle board – also known as particleboard, low-density fibreboard (LDF), and chipboard– is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even sawdust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder Particle board is cheaper, denser and more uniform than conventional wood and plywood and is substituted for them when cost is more important than strength and appearance. However, particleboard can be made more attractive by painting or the use of wood veneers onto surfaces that will be visible. Though it is denser than conventional wood, Medium-density fibreboard and hardboard, also called high-density fiberboard, are stronger and denser than particleboard. Different grades of particleboard have different densities, with higher density connoting greater strength and greater resistance to failure of screw fasteners. The advantages of using particleboard over veneer core plywood is it is more stable, (unless it gets wet), much cheaper to buy, and somewhat more convenient to use. Also nowadays laminated particle board and melamine faced particle board is also available to make it more durable and attractive. To make particle board fireproof, cement is used as bonding agent to make cement bonded particle board.