It can also be noticed that all the values observed in this work for swelling in thickness in 2 h are higher than the values of the panels commercialized in China (IE 2 h = 5.41%) as pointed out by Mendes (2008). They are also higher than the values found by Mendes (2008) for chipboard panels with sugarcane bagasse and urea formaldehyde resin (AA 2 h = 5.33%).