What is MDF made of?
MDF takes timber, paraffin wax and adhesive directly. Trace them back and you pass 20 made things on the way to 8 raw materials.
How MDF is made See it on the map
What goes straight in
From the ground: 8 raw materials
- Timber goes straight in
- Crude oil through paraffin wax
- Water through adhesive
- Natural gas through paraffin wax, hydrogen
- Air through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Sulfur through adhesive, acrylic, sulfuric acid
- Rock salt through adhesive, epoxy, caustic soda
- Coal through adhesive, epoxy, acetone, benzene, toluene
Made along the way: 18 things
Chemicals and fuels 14
HydrogenEthylenePropyleneAmmoniaSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineCaustic sodaNitric acidNaphthaBenzeneToluene