Contact person: Min-Jay Chung, researcher, the Experimental Forest, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University Tel: (049)2770138 Technology description At present, the common boards on the market can be roughly divided into two categories: fiberboard and particleboard. Although these two types of boards have the characteristics of high raw material utilization, they do not perform well in strength. While plywood and laminated lumber perform excellently in strength, the raw material utilization rate is only about 50%. Therefore, this research collected the sapwood and makino bamboo scraps from processing plants and thermally compressed the materials into boards in accordance with different board combinations after simple mechanical processing and chemical treatment. This method improves the utilization of wood and bamboo waste and increases production value.