Patent attributes
The present invention relates to a process for the production of wood-base materials which have at least one thin veneer layer adhesively bonded over the surface to a substrate or to further veneer layers, which process comprises the following steps:i. impregnation of a veneer with an aqueous curable composition which comprisesa) at least one curable urea compound selected from urea compounds H which have at least one N-bonded group of the formula CH2OR, where R is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl, and/or a 1,2-bishydroxyethane-1,2-diyl group bridging the two nitrogen atoms of the urea, precondensates of the urea compound H, and reaction products or mixtures of the urea compound H with at least one alcohol which is selected from C1-C6-alkanols, C2-C6-polyols and oligoethylene glycols, andb) at least one catalyst K effecting crosslinking of the urea compound;ii) gluing of the impregnated veneer and/or the substrate with a glue composition andiii) processing of the glued veneer to give a wood-base material at elevated temperature with curing of the crosslinkable urea compound,the impregnated veneer comprising the crosslinkable urea compound in substantially uncrosslinked form before the gluing in step ii).
