Method for producing pressed products using wood or vegetable material without adding binding substances and without preliminary processing

A method for the fabrication of pressed articles from wood or another vegetable material in the absence of bonding agents which comprises the steps of

• (a) drying wood or other vegetable material which has been ground to a particle size of less than 2.times.10.sup.31 3 m to a moisture content ranging from 9-11%;
• (b) heating hermetically sealed first press molds to a temperature within the range of 200.degree.-220.degree. C. and pressing the ground dried material which has been heated to a temperature not less than 120.degree. C. in heated second press molds under a pressure of not less than 30.0 MPa for a time period ranging from 1 to 1.5 min per 1.times.10.sup.-3 m of resultant pressed material thickness;
• (c) cooling the first press molds under full pressure without depressurization and gradually releasing the pressure;
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• (d) removing the pressed material from said first press molds.