Adhesives for wood laminating

Urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins are mainly used as adhesives for wood. Laminated sheets (tables and counter tops) are a major application for melamine resins, which stay in the outer decorative surface. Molding compounds, their first big application, is still a major market, taking advantage of their extreme hardness and heat resistance. Coatings, textile finishing, paper additives, leather tanning and foundry binders, for which methanol- or butanol-etherified resins are usually employed, are important markets discussed in Ref 203. 

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