Fast curing adhesive in wooden panel construction

A new kind of rapid bonding technology for wooden panel construction was developed. Wooden panel construction is used in the industry for prefabricated houses, which builds walls and ceilings on the base of large substructures of wood panel constructions for lightweight and easy deliverable substructures. The most common joints nowadays are stapled or nailed, the panel materials vary from particleboards and OSB-panels to cement-bonded particleboards (on the outside), all joined to timber frames. The new developed fast curing bonding technology offers specific economical and technical advantages by using hot melt adhesive tape. For assembly of the wooden panels the tape is simply clamped between the wooden parts at ambient temperature, there is not tacky. Then the adhesive is activated by conductive resistive electrical heating within only one minute. It was tested with OSB-panels and cement-bonded particleboards (for the outside), all joined to timber frames.