Abstract: A process to form a multilayer article comprising pressing a stack comprising two or more panels, wherein each panel comprises a surface layer and a substrate layer, wherein a side of the surface layer is contacted to a side of the substrate layer, and wherein the contacting sides of the surface layer and substrate layer have a fast-setting adhesive disposed there between; and wherein pressing comprises applying uniform pressure to the stack orthogonal to the plane of the panels, at ambient temperature and for a time of 0.1 to 20 minutes, and with no subsequent hot pressing. Articles prepared using the method are also disclosed.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an adhesive system for wood containing a synergistic mixture of melamine-formaldehyde resin, phenol-formaldehyde resin, and cross-linked polyvinyl acetate emulsion resin wherein the mixture is cured by an acid.

Abstract: Discloses compositions of urea dissolved in aqueous, polymerizable phenolic resole resins, wood-product laminated composite products produced with such resins, with or without the urea, and methods for the production of wood-product laminated composites with such resins. The resins contain the alkaline polymerization product of (a) formaldehyde polymerized with phenol and aliphatic hydrocarbylphenol or (b) aliphatic hydrocarbylphenol dissolved in the resin containing the polymerization product of phenol and formaldehyde, wherein the hydrocarbylphenol has from 9 to 17 carbon atoms in the hydrocarbyl group and the quantity of hydrocarbylphenol is from about 0.2% to 5% based on the weight of the aqueous resole resin. Wood-product laminate composites bound with the above resole resin, after curing, exhibit unexpectedly low water absorption, good internal bond strength and reduced thickness swell properties.