"Conservation of the Tattooed Lady, a collage by Peter Blake (b. HARDBOARD MASONITE & OTHER BRANDS at InspectApedia.com - online encyclopedia of building & environmental inspection, testing, diagnosis, repair, & problem prevention advice. Lpez-Aparicio, Susana, Terje Grntoft, Marianne Odlyha, Elin Dahlin, Peter Mottner, David Thickett, Morten Ryhl-Svendsen, Norbert Schmidbauer, and Mikkel Scharff. Review of thickness swell in hardboard siding: Effect of processing variables. "Pressure inversion process of making hard board products." Journal of the Institute of Conservation 32, no. "Detection of delaminations in art objects using air-coupled ultrasound." Mason, William H. "Composite structural unit." U.S. Patent 2,317,394, issued April 27, 1943. Photos shown below give that work as in-progress; further research is needed. 
[1894-1976] - op. Whether you need help solving quadratic equations, inspiration for the upcoming science fair or the latest update on a major storm, Sciencing is here to help. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= This little known plugin reveals the answer. info@plyco.com.au In the U.S. Mason's key fiberboard patents (the progenitor of the product name Masonite) date from 1926 to 1933. 3015 112th Ave NE, STE 214, Bellevue, WA 98004 General: (888) 856-6677 info@silvaris.com www.silvaris.com. Murray, Alison, C. M. Fortunko, Marion F. Mecklenburg, and Robert E. Green. Masonite is also used in the construction of sets for theater, film and television, and at Midtown Lumber, we use it as the surface for our table saw. [21] Pergo AB, division of Perstorp AB, is a Swedish manufacturer or modern laminate flooring products. [13] Isham: "An Example of Colonial Paneling", Norman Morrison Isham, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. Hardboard Masonite panels are a specific and surprisingly versatile type of wood-based composite panel. I would appreciate any information you may glean from this, and I thank you very much for your time and effort. And one fact that not many people know is that B Grade hardboard, while much less expensive, can feature only minor defects, making it nearly as usable as premium grades! Abruzzi, Rafael C., Berenice A. Dedavid; Maral J. R. Pires; Suzana F. Ferrarini, Akers, LE Particle Board and Hardboard Pergamon Press, London and New York, 1966, eBook ISBN: 9781483155449, Carillo-Varela, Isabel, Paulina Valenzuela, William Gacita, and Regis Teixeira Mendona. U.S. Patent 1,812,969, issued July 7, 1931. The second pair Seems to be high density hardboard, whereas the Last pair is Mit freundlichen Gren. If you are looking to use Masonite on your next project, you should know that it can be nailed or screwed to other materials, but generally not itself. More details are in (Henry 1988). Or use the SEARCH BOX found below to Ask a Question or Search InspectApedia. - Ulrik Runeberg. [26] "Wood That Reaches New Heights", Henry Fountain, [27] Innovative Timber Systems, Inc., Montana Sustainable Systems, 1005 Baker Avenue, Suite G, Whitefish, Montana 59937 406.261.1194 (M). The original Masonite products were made only from wood and water. Other uses for masonite include making skateboard decks and wobble boards, and using it in construction for walls, roofs and flooring. 2 (2009): 181-204. 60452 - email: bevusg@aol.com, 708-535-6506, [12] I-Joists: "The Evolution of Engineered Wood I-Joists", Paul Fisette, Building Materials and Wood Technology. Hackney, Stephen. Thickness, size, and finish should also be considered when choosing this type of composite wood product. Since masonite is made from very long fibers of wood, it has a number of features that other wooden boards do not have. The enterprise doesnt exist any more, but according to information in the internet, this brand was highly successful, and the enterprise quite modern back in those times (constructed with Swedish machinery).
Wood fibers extracted from wood chips are formed into a sheet and bound together by the wood's natural resins. Photos: S1S Dry Process Masonite or a similar product used as artwork substrate for a painting under restoration in Australia. is more useful than you think. "Sticky problems for conservators of works of art on paper." - U.R. The board is generally very smooth and has no signs of being chemically treated because it is made through all-natural processes. Gregory, Richard L. "The most expensive painting in the world." It is often confused with MDF or cement fiberboard, but it is not the same thing. may be available at. The slurry is pumped onto a screen which allows the water to drain, after which it is pressed into sheets. Our Comment Box is provided by Countable Web Productions countable.ca, Click to Show or Hide Citations & References, History & Ingredients of Masonite Hardboard + Artworks on Hardboard, HARDBOARD & MASONITE USED in WORKS OF ART, HISTORY of MASONITE HARDBOARD in AUSTRALIA, A New Zealand Communist Party Mural, Poster Paints on Large Format Fiberboard, Staining and Microbiological Infestation of Acrylic Paintings on Hardboard, MASONITE & HARDBOARD CEILING & WALL COVERINGS, Relationship between density and anatomical structure of different species of Eucalyptus and identification of preservatives, IDENTIFICATION OF FIBRE COMPONENTS IN PACKAGING GRADE PAPERS, EUCALYPTUS [LEAF] , MACRO & MICROSCOPIC PROPERTIES, AN EVALUATION OF FIBERBIOMETRY AND NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT EUCALYPTUS SPECIES, THOROUGH CHARACTERIZATION OF BRAZILIAN NEW GENERATION OF EUCALYPT CLONES AND GRASS FOR PULP PRODUCTION, THE EVOLUTION OF A CONSERVATION FRAMING POLICY AT TATE, EARLY WOOD-FIBER PANELS: MASONITE, HARDBOARD, AND LOWER-DENSITY BOARDS, A PROCEDURE FOR IDENTIFYING CELLULOSE FIBERS IN PAPER ARTIFACTS - Differentiating between flax, hemp and cotton, MEASUREMENT OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN MICROCLIMATE FRAMES FOR PAINTINGS, FROM EUCALYPT FIBER DISTRIBUTIONS TO TECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF PAPER, RECOMMENDED BASIC APPLICATIONS & PAINTING INSTRUCTIONS for HARDBOARD SIDING, TODAY'S HARDBOARD [Composition & Properties of Hardboard], ANSI / AHA A135.5 - 1995 PREFINISHED HARDBOARD PANELING, Wood Handbook, Chapter 12: Mechanical Properties of Wood-Based Composite Materials, The Labyrinth of Frida Kahlo, Death, Pain, & Ambivalence, HARDBOARD SIDING PULLED from FLORIDA MARKET, HARD GRAINLESS FIBER PRODUCTS and PROCESS of MAKING SAME, PROCESS for the MANUFACTURE of VEGETABLE FIBER PRODUCTS, CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION of LIGNO-CELLULOSE FIBER PRODUCT, MASONITE ANNOUNCES INTENTION to PHASE OUT HARDBOARD SIDING, How Our Backerboard Products Stack Up Rhinoboard and Wonderboard, STAINING AND MICROBIOLOGICAL INFESTATION OF ACRYLIC PAINTINGS ON HARDBOARD, Chapter 11: Wood-Based Composite Materials-Panel Products- Glued-Laminated Timber, Structural Composite Lumber, and Wood-Nonwood Composite Materials, TECHNOLOGY in AUSTRALIA 1788-1988: FIBREBOARDS, Trimtec Hardboard Flooring Underlay Data Sheet, ART CONSERVATION - Cultural Heritage and Aerobiology, HISTORY of the USE of WOOD & OTHER WALL PANELING in North America, MDF Medium-Density Fiberboard DEFINITION & CHARACTERISTICS, ASBESTOS, ITS INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, ROSATO 1959.
You mentioned the hardboard is probably masonite, [I agree] and you said that it is still in production today. Taschen, 2002. www.asurelook.com Copy on file as Masonite+Siding+Fact+Sheet.pd, Australia National Library, Masonite Corporation (Australia).
Simply go to our contact us page and tell us what you need! The most common use for Masonite is on interior doors, available in a wide range of designs by Masonite. I am an artist residing in Australia and sometimes I do some art restoration work. Modern methods apply a small amount of oil with a roller. The conifers form wood that has only tracheids (fibers) and parenchyma cells, whereas the hardwoods have fibers, parenchyma and vessels. Website Excerpt: Hardboard is a generic term for a panel manufactured primarily from inter-felted ligno-cellulosic fibers, consolidated under heat and pressure in a hot press of density of 31 pounds per cubic foot (a specific gravity of about 0.5: or about 0.50 grams per cubic centimeter density) or greater. In 2002 Premdor became the Masonite International Corporation whose contact information we give below. Note: appearance of your Comment below may be delayed: if your comment contains an image, web link, or text that looks to the software as if it might be a web link, your posting will appear after it has been approved by a moderator. Land clearing at the Raymond Terrace site began in 1938 but actual hardboard production in Australia didn't begin until the following year, 1939. Okay, now that we have given you the breakdown, history, and more information than you ever thought you needed about Masonitelets talk about when to use Masonite. - U.R. 2 (1996): 145-162. RhinoBoard, various products & sources with this name at least previously may have included hardboard with a Rhinocerous stamp imprinted on the board's back surface - [citations needed]. Mason, William H. "Process of making ligno-cellulose fiber products." Masonite sheets are made from wood fibers extracted from wood chips and formed into a sheet that is bound together by the wood's natural resins. We don't know for certain (yet) but probably this is a true Masonite board. Hardboards unique qualities make it an ideal option as a panel substrate for hundreds of different products. Commonly known as Masonite (a brand name derived from the panels inventor and the company he started), hardboard is a thin, strong board made from wood fiber derivates like chips. These boards are also popular with set designers who use Masonite board to construct and protect theater and motion picture sets. How could homes be designed and built more efficiently? "Avoiding Foundation Failures," Robert Marshall, Historic Preservation Technology: A Primer, Robert A. Tempered Masonite undergoes an additional step in manufacturing. Premdor, a door and door component manufacturer formed in 1979 merged with the Century Wood Door Company ten years later in 1989 and more-recently, in 2001 Premdor, Inc. obtained the Masonite business from International Paper, and began using the Masonite brand. Other hardboard products available in Australia include Evowood hardboard cited below. Carll, Charles. It was Sd by Francis Bacon for a triptych (3 panel painting) which is at Tate in London and quite popular in the late 1960's among leading restorers, worldwide. Hardboard (HDF) is produced in one of two ways, either a wet or dry process. That would explain the "Wet 24 hours before use" instruction marked on the product. Hardboards ability to resist damage and withstand cutting, routing, shaping, and drilling allow for near 100% usage of the panel. The Journal of Southern History 27, no. Above: The painting detail is from the 1950s or early 1960s (unidentified). were merged in 1959. 2008. Leonardo 3, no. Furniture manufacturers use it for cabinets, drawers, shelves, and backing for mirrors and pictures, among other things. Joshmar, Marcus, Melbourne Australia, private correspondence (2021/01/17 & other), it says "Wet this side 24 hours before use". 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); It is a versatile and sustainable product that uses leftover or recycled wood products. Watch out: In some countries and texts the word masonite has been used generically for a wood or vegetable-fibre hardboard that may in fact have been manufactured by another company. This wobbleboard made of Masonite was sold in Australia in the 1960s and early 1970s as a musical device. Goodwin, Mary. That Masonite has found a stunning range of uses from CocaCola signs made of Masonite to cupcake boards to musical instruments is demonstrated by the Wobbleboard, image courtesy of InspectApedia.com reader Marc Joshmar (2020/01) You probably know that some chemicals in some pigments had definite eras of use, such as lead white and real cadmium in cadmium yellow. (BBC 2019). Note that manufactured in other countries HDF and MDF of course appear under other product names, such as the VEB Ribnitz-Damgarten panel illustrated at HARDBOARD & MASONITE USED in WORKS OF ART. Masonite (Australia) was reorganized and renamed Masonite Holdings, Ltd. Australia in 1955. Soldiers would be coming home after the war and would be needing good low-cost housing. Certified to CSA 0325, Construction Sheathing, or CSA 0437, OSB and Waferboard, OSB is accepted in the National Building Code of Canada, certified to EN 300, Oriented Strand Boards and recognized for structural use in Europe and certified to meet the JAS standard for structural panels in Japan. The company's success grew to include sales world-wide as Masonite hardboard was used widely not only in construction but even in automobiles and airplanes as body and partition sections, furniture, and the wildly-popular pegboard hanging in our garage. We also provide an ARTICLE INDEX for this topic, or you can try the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need. Hardboard or HDF, first patented in 1772 ( Katlan 1994) has been widely used world-wide since the 1930s in a stunning rang of applications including construction, furniture, shelving, signs, kitchen tools, parts in airplanes, trucks and cars, works of art, and even musical instruments. Diagnosing & Repairing House Structure Problems, Edgar O. Seaquist, McGraw Hill, 1980 ISBN 0-07-056013-7 (obsolete, incomplete, missing most diagnosis steps, but very good reading; out of print but used copies are available at Amazon.com, and reprints are available from some inspection tool suppliers). 2010. 1932)." Tempering the product makes Masonite sheets stronger and less susceptible to warping. Composite hardboard panels may combine a layer of polyester fabric or by kraft paper impregnated with melamine resin or polyester resin and a substrate of hardboard sold as a "low pressure laminate" product such as sometimes found in countertops and kitchen or bath paneling.
[1894-1976] - op. Whether you need help solving quadratic equations, inspiration for the upcoming science fair or the latest update on a major storm, Sciencing is here to help. '&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= This little known plugin reveals the answer. info@plyco.com.au In the U.S. Mason's key fiberboard patents (the progenitor of the product name Masonite) date from 1926 to 1933. 3015 112th Ave NE, STE 214, Bellevue, WA 98004 General: (888) 856-6677 info@silvaris.com www.silvaris.com. Murray, Alison, C. M. Fortunko, Marion F. Mecklenburg, and Robert E. Green. Masonite is also used in the construction of sets for theater, film and television, and at Midtown Lumber, we use it as the surface for our table saw. [21] Pergo AB, division of Perstorp AB, is a Swedish manufacturer or modern laminate flooring products. [13] Isham: "An Example of Colonial Paneling", Norman Morrison Isham, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Vol. Hardboard Masonite panels are a specific and surprisingly versatile type of wood-based composite panel. I would appreciate any information you may glean from this, and I thank you very much for your time and effort. And one fact that not many people know is that B Grade hardboard, while much less expensive, can feature only minor defects, making it nearly as usable as premium grades! Abruzzi, Rafael C., Berenice A. Dedavid; Maral J. R. Pires; Suzana F. Ferrarini, Akers, LE Particle Board and Hardboard Pergamon Press, London and New York, 1966, eBook ISBN: 9781483155449, Carillo-Varela, Isabel, Paulina Valenzuela, William Gacita, and Regis Teixeira Mendona. U.S. Patent 1,812,969, issued July 7, 1931. The second pair Seems to be high density hardboard, whereas the Last pair is Mit freundlichen Gren. If you are looking to use Masonite on your next project, you should know that it can be nailed or screwed to other materials, but generally not itself. More details are in (Henry 1988). Or use the SEARCH BOX found below to Ask a Question or Search InspectApedia. - Ulrik Runeberg. [26] "Wood That Reaches New Heights", Henry Fountain, [27] Innovative Timber Systems, Inc., Montana Sustainable Systems, 1005 Baker Avenue, Suite G, Whitefish, Montana 59937 406.261.1194 (M). The original Masonite products were made only from wood and water. Other uses for masonite include making skateboard decks and wobble boards, and using it in construction for walls, roofs and flooring. 2 (2009): 181-204. 60452 - email: bevusg@aol.com, 708-535-6506, [12] I-Joists: "The Evolution of Engineered Wood I-Joists", Paul Fisette, Building Materials and Wood Technology. Hackney, Stephen. Thickness, size, and finish should also be considered when choosing this type of composite wood product. Since masonite is made from very long fibers of wood, it has a number of features that other wooden boards do not have. The enterprise doesnt exist any more, but according to information in the internet, this brand was highly successful, and the enterprise quite modern back in those times (constructed with Swedish machinery). Wood fibers extracted from wood chips are formed into a sheet and bound together by the wood's natural resins. Photos: S1S Dry Process Masonite or a similar product used as artwork substrate for a painting under restoration in Australia. is more useful than you think. "Sticky problems for conservators of works of art on paper." - U.R. The board is generally very smooth and has no signs of being chemically treated because it is made through all-natural processes. Gregory, Richard L. "The most expensive painting in the world." It is often confused with MDF or cement fiberboard, but it is not the same thing. may be available at. The slurry is pumped onto a screen which allows the water to drain, after which it is pressed into sheets. Our Comment Box is provided by Countable Web Productions countable.ca, Click to Show or Hide Citations & References, History & Ingredients of Masonite Hardboard + Artworks on Hardboard, HARDBOARD & MASONITE USED in WORKS OF ART, HISTORY of MASONITE HARDBOARD in AUSTRALIA, A New Zealand Communist Party Mural, Poster Paints on Large Format Fiberboard, Staining and Microbiological Infestation of Acrylic Paintings on Hardboard, MASONITE & HARDBOARD CEILING & WALL COVERINGS, Relationship between density and anatomical structure of different species of Eucalyptus and identification of preservatives, IDENTIFICATION OF FIBRE COMPONENTS IN PACKAGING GRADE PAPERS, EUCALYPTUS [LEAF] , MACRO & MICROSCOPIC PROPERTIES, AN EVALUATION OF FIBERBIOMETRY AND NANOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DIFFERENT EUCALYPTUS SPECIES, THOROUGH CHARACTERIZATION OF BRAZILIAN NEW GENERATION OF EUCALYPT CLONES AND GRASS FOR PULP PRODUCTION, THE EVOLUTION OF A CONSERVATION FRAMING POLICY AT TATE, EARLY WOOD-FIBER PANELS: MASONITE, HARDBOARD, AND LOWER-DENSITY BOARDS, A PROCEDURE FOR IDENTIFYING CELLULOSE FIBERS IN PAPER ARTIFACTS - Differentiating between flax, hemp and cotton, MEASUREMENT OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN MICROCLIMATE FRAMES FOR PAINTINGS, FROM EUCALYPT FIBER DISTRIBUTIONS TO TECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF PAPER, RECOMMENDED BASIC APPLICATIONS & PAINTING INSTRUCTIONS for HARDBOARD SIDING, TODAY'S HARDBOARD [Composition & Properties of Hardboard], ANSI / AHA A135.5 - 1995 PREFINISHED HARDBOARD PANELING, Wood Handbook, Chapter 12: Mechanical Properties of Wood-Based Composite Materials, The Labyrinth of Frida Kahlo, Death, Pain, & Ambivalence, HARDBOARD SIDING PULLED from FLORIDA MARKET, HARD GRAINLESS FIBER PRODUCTS and PROCESS of MAKING SAME, PROCESS for the MANUFACTURE of VEGETABLE FIBER PRODUCTS, CONTINUOUS PRODUCTION of LIGNO-CELLULOSE FIBER PRODUCT, MASONITE ANNOUNCES INTENTION to PHASE OUT HARDBOARD SIDING, How Our Backerboard Products Stack Up Rhinoboard and Wonderboard, STAINING AND MICROBIOLOGICAL INFESTATION OF ACRYLIC PAINTINGS ON HARDBOARD, Chapter 11: Wood-Based Composite Materials-Panel Products- Glued-Laminated Timber, Structural Composite Lumber, and Wood-Nonwood Composite Materials, TECHNOLOGY in AUSTRALIA 1788-1988: FIBREBOARDS, Trimtec Hardboard Flooring Underlay Data Sheet, ART CONSERVATION - Cultural Heritage and Aerobiology, HISTORY of the USE of WOOD & OTHER WALL PANELING in North America, MDF Medium-Density Fiberboard DEFINITION & CHARACTERISTICS, ASBESTOS, ITS INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS, ROSATO 1959.
You mentioned the hardboard is probably masonite, [I agree] and you said that it is still in production today. Taschen, 2002. www.asurelook.com Copy on file as Masonite+Siding+Fact+Sheet.pd, Australia National Library, Masonite Corporation (Australia).
Simply go to our contact us page and tell us what you need! The most common use for Masonite is on interior doors, available in a wide range of designs by Masonite. I am an artist residing in Australia and sometimes I do some art restoration work. Modern methods apply a small amount of oil with a roller. The conifers form wood that has only tracheids (fibers) and parenchyma cells, whereas the hardwoods have fibers, parenchyma and vessels. Website Excerpt: Hardboard is a generic term for a panel manufactured primarily from inter-felted ligno-cellulosic fibers, consolidated under heat and pressure in a hot press of density of 31 pounds per cubic foot (a specific gravity of about 0.5: or about 0.50 grams per cubic centimeter density) or greater. In 2002 Premdor became the Masonite International Corporation whose contact information we give below. Note: appearance of your Comment below may be delayed: if your comment contains an image, web link, or text that looks to the software as if it might be a web link, your posting will appear after it has been approved by a moderator. Land clearing at the Raymond Terrace site began in 1938 but actual hardboard production in Australia didn't begin until the following year, 1939. Okay, now that we have given you the breakdown, history, and more information than you ever thought you needed about Masonitelets talk about when to use Masonite. - U.R. 2 (1996): 145-162. RhinoBoard, various products & sources with this name at least previously may have included hardboard with a Rhinocerous stamp imprinted on the board's back surface - [citations needed]. Mason, William H. "Process of making ligno-cellulose fiber products." Masonite sheets are made from wood fibers extracted from wood chips and formed into a sheet that is bound together by the wood's natural resins. We don't know for certain (yet) but probably this is a true Masonite board. Hardboards unique qualities make it an ideal option as a panel substrate for hundreds of different products. Commonly known as Masonite (a brand name derived from the panels inventor and the company he started), hardboard is a thin, strong board made from wood fiber derivates like chips. These boards are also popular with set designers who use Masonite board to construct and protect theater and motion picture sets. How could homes be designed and built more efficiently? "Avoiding Foundation Failures," Robert Marshall, Historic Preservation Technology: A Primer, Robert A. Tempered Masonite undergoes an additional step in manufacturing. Premdor, a door and door component manufacturer formed in 1979 merged with the Century Wood Door Company ten years later in 1989 and more-recently, in 2001 Premdor, Inc. obtained the Masonite business from International Paper, and began using the Masonite brand. Other hardboard products available in Australia include Evowood hardboard cited below. Carll, Charles. It was Sd by Francis Bacon for a triptych (3 panel painting) which is at Tate in London and quite popular in the late 1960's among leading restorers, worldwide. Hardboard (HDF) is produced in one of two ways, either a wet or dry process. That would explain the "Wet 24 hours before use" instruction marked on the product. Hardboards ability to resist damage and withstand cutting, routing, shaping, and drilling allow for near 100% usage of the panel. The Journal of Southern History 27, no. Above: The painting detail is from the 1950s or early 1960s (unidentified). were merged in 1959. 2008. Leonardo 3, no. Furniture manufacturers use it for cabinets, drawers, shelves, and backing for mirrors and pictures, among other things. Joshmar, Marcus, Melbourne Australia, private correspondence (2021/01/17 & other), it says "Wet this side 24 hours before use". 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); It is a versatile and sustainable product that uses leftover or recycled wood products. Watch out: In some countries and texts the word masonite has been used generically for a wood or vegetable-fibre hardboard that may in fact have been manufactured by another company. This wobbleboard made of Masonite was sold in Australia in the 1960s and early 1970s as a musical device. Goodwin, Mary. That Masonite has found a stunning range of uses from CocaCola signs made of Masonite to cupcake boards to musical instruments is demonstrated by the Wobbleboard, image courtesy of InspectApedia.com reader Marc Joshmar (2020/01) You probably know that some chemicals in some pigments had definite eras of use, such as lead white and real cadmium in cadmium yellow. (BBC 2019). Note that manufactured in other countries HDF and MDF of course appear under other product names, such as the VEB Ribnitz-Damgarten panel illustrated at HARDBOARD & MASONITE USED in WORKS OF ART. Masonite (Australia) was reorganized and renamed Masonite Holdings, Ltd. Australia in 1955. Soldiers would be coming home after the war and would be needing good low-cost housing. Certified to CSA 0325, Construction Sheathing, or CSA 0437, OSB and Waferboard, OSB is accepted in the National Building Code of Canada, certified to EN 300, Oriented Strand Boards and recognized for structural use in Europe and certified to meet the JAS standard for structural panels in Japan. The company's success grew to include sales world-wide as Masonite hardboard was used widely not only in construction but even in automobiles and airplanes as body and partition sections, furniture, and the wildly-popular pegboard hanging in our garage. We also provide an ARTICLE INDEX for this topic, or you can try the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need. Hardboard or HDF, first patented in 1772 ( Katlan 1994) has been widely used world-wide since the 1930s in a stunning rang of applications including construction, furniture, shelving, signs, kitchen tools, parts in airplanes, trucks and cars, works of art, and even musical instruments. Diagnosing & Repairing House Structure Problems, Edgar O. Seaquist, McGraw Hill, 1980 ISBN 0-07-056013-7 (obsolete, incomplete, missing most diagnosis steps, but very good reading; out of print but used copies are available at Amazon.com, and reprints are available from some inspection tool suppliers). 2010. 1932)." Tempering the product makes Masonite sheets stronger and less susceptible to warping. Composite hardboard panels may combine a layer of polyester fabric or by kraft paper impregnated with melamine resin or polyester resin and a substrate of hardboard sold as a "low pressure laminate" product such as sometimes found in countertops and kitchen or bath paneling.