Wood wool

Common card · No. 306623

Wood wool, known primarily as excelsior in North America, is a product made of wood slivers cut from logs. It is mainly used in packaging, for cooling pads in home evaporative cooling systems known as swamp coolers, for erosion control mats, and as a raw material for the production of other products such as bonded wood wool boards. In the past it was used as stuffing, or padding, in upholstery, or to fill stuffed toys. It is also sometimes used by taxidermists to construct the armatures of taxidermy mounts. Today, wood wool is used as a material in a wide variety of applications. The problem is that wood wool is not recorded as a separate product in statistical surveys, and thus its production cannot be reflected in the relevant trade statistics, either in terms of volume or value. However, wood wool is by no means a “byproduct,” as this classification assumes due to a lack of knowledge. Until 2004, wood wool was covered by DIN Standard 4077. After World War II, wood wool producers found...

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