At the beginning of the 1st century BC, the Romans were already familiar with the technology of veneer manufacturing and the principles of plywood manufacturing.
In 1812, the French invented the veneer sawing machine.
In 1834, France issued a patent for a planer.
After 1844, the improved rotary cutting machine was officially used in industrial production. Since then, the rotary cutting machine has been continuously improved, promoting the development of the plywood industry. In the mid-19th century, Germany was the first to establish a plywood factory.
In 1887, Germany used sawdust and blood glue to make particleboard, which was the beginning of particleboard.
In 1889, Germany obtained its first patent for particleboard made from wood shavings. The emergence of synthetic resin adhesives in the early 20th century prepared the conditions for the production of particleboard industry.
In 1898, Britain was the first to manufacture semi-rigid fiberboard on a circular paper machine.
In 1914, the United States produced insulation boards from ground wood pulp scraps and built insulation fiberboard factories.
In 1916, the dry forming process first appeared in Austria.
In 1924, the United States created the Massonet (blasting) fiber separation technology, and by 1928, it had been able to produce high-quality hard fiberboard.
In 1931, Sweden invented the Asplund method, and the following year, the first hard fiberboard factory produced using this method was established in Sweden. From then on, the fiberboard manufacturing industry separated from the paper industry and became an independent industrial category.
In 1935, France used waste veneer to produce long strips of wood shavings, which were arranged vertically to form a slab during paving and shaping. This was a pioneer in directional technology in particleboard. In 1937, Switzerland proposed a manufacturing process for three-layer wood shavings structure.
In 1941, the first fully equipped particleboard factory was established in Germany, completing the technical preparation stage of the particleboard industry.
In 1943, the United States achieved success in researching dry and semi dry manufacturing processes. In the early 1950s, factories were established in the United States, Federal Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria to produce hard fiberboard using the aforementioned two methods.
In the late 1940s, with the development of the Bardlev method and Okal method for continuous production of particleboard in the UK and Germany respectively, and the production of corresponding complete sets of continuous production equipment, particleboard production entered the industrial system.
In the early 1960s, medium density fiberboard was produced based on dry production technology. In 1966, the first medium density fiberboard factory was built in the United States.