The expansion of Brazilian agricultural production was very important in the last decade. A number of
waste residues were produced showing an enormous potential for industrial crops and products. Sugarcane
bagasse is the most important one and it has been investigated for chipboard panel’s preparation. In
this sense, this work aims to develop, characterize and compare chipboard panels made with sugarcane
bagasse with urea formaldehyde (UF) and melamine formaldehyde (MF) resins. Panels were obtained
with a mixture of sugarcane bagasse and particles, like pine or eucalyptus, with and without paraffin in
the formulation. Nine different types of panels have been made, all with 9% in resin mix, under a pressing
cycle of 4.0MPacm2, and temperature of 160 ◦C. Under physical tests, the panels complied with the
American Standard CS 236-66 for trading chipboards of medium density and, in most cases the results
obtained were lower than the ones raised in the literature. Under mechanical tests, that same standard
was not complied with and, in most cases the results were close to or higher than those obtained in the
literature.