There’s a lot to love about wood cutting boards: They’re a pleasure to chop on and gentler on knife edges. And they’re far more beautiful than plastic ones.

What results is a material that is denser than wood that naturally comes from trees, and is much stronger. Steel, for example, has a strength of about 400 megapascals, which measure yield and ...

InventWood’s Superwood product starts with regular timber, which is mostly composed of two compounds, cellulose and lignin. The goal is to strengthen the cellulose already present in the wood.