Wood composites as part of wood engineering materials has been reaching a constant developing trend, being used on a wide range of applications and becoming worldwide as a very promising alternate material face to traditional building materials such as concrete, metal and plastics. In this part of the series are treated aspects among which advances functionalities in laminates, the activation of natural fibres, the natural matrix, and others industrials manufacturing research advances for wood material as composite.

• Contents
• List of contributing authors
• 1. Introduction of advanced functionalities in laminates for wood-based panels: surface quality evaluation
• 2. Activation of natural fibers using physical routes: Applications for composites materials
• 3. Natural matrix/non wood natural fibers composites
• 4. Ultrasonic press control and evaluation of wood-based composite panel properties
• 5. Reconstituted composite from crop stalks
• 6. Wood welding without adhesives
• 7. Surface quality of mechanically processed wood
• 8. Strategies to reduce formaldehyde emissions from wood-based panels: Impact on physicomechanical properties and machinability
• Index