wood fibers
Paper's raw material
Wood fibers are the elongated cells that give wood its structure and strength.
Extracted and processed, they become the raw material for paper, cardboard, and fiberboard.
The term appears in discussions of papermaking, construction materials, and textiles: The packaging is made entirely from wood fibers.
- hardboardCompressed wood fiber sheet
- particleboardBonded wood fragment sheets
- pulpingConverting to soft mass
- ligninStructural plant polymer
- plant cellBasic botanical structural unit
cellulose · MDF · bleaching · xylem · paper pulp · paper mill · fiberboard · chipping · refining · composite material · vascular tissue · cambium · tree trunk · shavings · sawdust · decomposition · mulch · pressed
- pulp processingpulp, mechanical pulping, delignification, digesting, digesters
- wood scienceheartwood, sapwood, cambium, xylem, phloem
- wood scrapssawdust, shavings, splinters, offcuts, slivers
- plant tissuesparenchyma, xylem, phloem, meristem, cambium
- vascular tissuexylem, phloem, cambium, stele, vessel elements
wood fiberssynthetic fibers
Chemically produced textile strands
nylon · polyester · man-made fibers · carbon fiber · rayon
wood fibersanimal fibers
Textile materials from fauna
wool · silk · glass fibers · cashmere · mohair