Question for Melamine enclosures

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Actually melamine and it's finished variations ( like oak vaneer) are going to last just as long as regular plywood.

The main difference between plywood and compressed particle board is that plywood is several.layers glued together and have planes that can be potentially weak and split. Plywood does hold screws better than compressed wood. Furniture grade plywood is also meeting expensive than compressed wood with a vaneer finish.

Compressed wood on the other hand has no planes that could fracture and split because it is basically a sheet of industrial strength glue with wood chips as a filler. It is much denser than plywood and can stand more pressure. It doesn't hold up well when putting screws in and removing them often. As long as you aren't taking said item apart often it should out last most other materials.