Collated nails made from wood - video

[Frank S]

My first thought was little more than driving tooth picks so I was wondering about the shear strength then I went to their web site. The beech wood selected for its cell structure Ok I get that, then I read where the wood was compressed, OK again forced compaction of cell structure is much akin to forging steel to make it stronger by compacting the molecules closer together.
The cells in wood naturally would not be a solid closely compacted state since a tree has to get moisture and nutrients through out its mass or it could not live.
OK compacting the cells yeas I see how that would add a small amount of strength but not significantly I wouldn't think. Then finally I found where a resin is infused with the cellular structure as the compaction process takes place. BINGO a bonding agent. Now the wooden nails are more of a composite than just my tooth pick thought.