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The effects of hot-pressing temperature (140, 160, and 180 \u00b0C), hot-pressing pressure (0.8, 1.2, and 1.6 MPa), hot-pressing time (1, 2, 3, and 5 min), and type of adhesives on the physical and mechanical properties of alder plywood panels were investigated. The effects of these variables on the core-layer temperature during the hot pressing of multiplywood panels using various adhesives were also studied. Three types of adhesives were used: urea\u2013formaldehyde (UF), phenol\u2013formaldehyde (PF), and HDPE film. UF and PF adhesives were used for the comparison. The findings of this work indicate that formaldehyde-free HDPE film adhesive gave values of mechanical properties of alder plywood panels that are comparable to those obtained with traditional UF and PF adhesives, even though the adhesive dosage and pressing pressure were lower than when UF and PF adhesives were used. The obtained bonding strength values of HDPE-bonded alder plywood panels ranged from 0.74 to 2.38 MPa and met the European Standard EN 314-2 for Class 1 plywood. The optimum conditions for the bonding of HDPE plywood were 160 \u00b0C, 0.8 MPa, and 3 min.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym11071166","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,10]],"date-time":"2019-07-10T03:05:26Z","timestamp":1562727926000},"page":"1166","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":55,"title":["Environmentally-Friendly High-Density Polyethylene-Bonded Plywood Panels"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4320-5247","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pavlo","family":"Bekhta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Wood-Based Composites, Cellulose, and Paper, Ukrainian National Forestry University, 79057 Lviv, Ukraine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"J\u00e1n","family":"Sedlia\u010dik","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Furniture and Wood Products, Technical University in Zvolen, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovakia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"191","DOI":"10.1007\/s00107-013-0770-8","article-title":"Influence of veneer thickness on the properties of LVL from Parica (Schizolobium amazonicum) plantation trees","volume":"72","year":"2014","journal-title":"Eur. 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