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ORIENTED STRAND BOARDS (OSB)

Evolution OSB-3 type distinguished by its high strength and moisture resistance

Oriented strand board OSB-3

OSB, Oriented Strand Board is the material formed by pressing of flat wood chips of softwood with the use of safe and high quality adhesive.

OSB is one of the general construction materials for building as well as materials for furniture and packaging industries.

Qualitative characteristics of OSB is environmental compatibility, stability of shapes and dimensions, bending strength, resistance to deformation, simplicity of cutting and assembling, high heat and sound insulation properties, high wear resistance, Uniformity of structure.

Good for Environment, Good for Business

Our OSB-3 boards are produced in two different formaldehyde emission standards for use in accordance with the local legislation in US and EU:

Emission Class ULEF (TSCA Part VI compliant) - for use in the USA;
Emission Class E-1 (EN 13986 standard) - for use in EC

Based on above standards, OSB-3 boards may be used for interior decoration, constructions of residential and public buildings, packaging production, furniture production, products and structures using inside residential areas.

Our panels are available in two edge types:

Square edge OSB panels: thickness 6 - 22 mm;
T&G edge OSB panels: thickness 12 - 22 mm.

Our panels are available in several sizes:

Metric Sizes:

Thickness: 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 18, 22 mm; tolerance ± 0,8 mm;

Length: 1250, 2440, 2500, 2650, 2800, 3000, 5000 mm; tolerance ± 3,0;

Width: 625, 675, 1220, 1250 mm; tolerance ± 3,0 mm

US sizes:

Thickness: 1/4", 3/8", 1/2", 5/8", 3/4"

Dimensions: 4'x8'

Application.

Unique physical and mechanical properties and development of manufacturing technologies let portray OSB-3 as one of the general construction materials for building as well as materials for furniture and packaging industries.

OSB has become especially popular in producing roof and wall sandwich panels for skeleton-type house building. Its application reduces the time of building and at the same time making it more accurately.

OSB is used for constructions, where transfer of load to lengthwise bearing (for example, trussing and beams) is necessary.

Thus, OSB can be applied as a bearing base for flexible tiles, roll materials and seam roofing. For application of heavier coverings, such as ceramic and cement-sand tiles, OSB becomes a surface of wind bracing, which means that load is reallocated along the surface of the board. OSB-3 is widely used for mounting of solid roof sheathing.

General fields of OSB application

Sheathing of partition walls
High strength and resistance to deformation make possible to apply OSB in combination with multiple types of exterior and interior lining coating.

Base for roof coverings
Such properties as lightness, sound absorption, rigidity and capacity to withstand heavy snow and wind loads make OSB-3 suitable for application as a base for roofing materials. OSB ensures high pull-out resistance of screws, which increases reliability of roofing materials.

Supporting joists and floor coverings
OSB-3 is used in building for construction of supporting surfaces (such as solid coverings and bearing joists). For lightweight building constructions OSB is used as basic flooring, with application of self-leveling lightweight concrete mixture or under flooring boards.

I-beams
High quality supporting OSB-3 constructions prevent displacement and deflection; I-section contributes to the solidity properties, which rank I-beams together with concrete and reinforced-concrete constructions.

Furniture and packaging
OSB is used for production of the components of high-loaded furniture frames as well as for production of packaging: crates, boxes and containers.