The comprehensive research on properties of dust wastes arising during the sanding of surfaces of furniture elements made of softwood, which is often used in this production, was undertaken. The results bring an essential contribution to creating a solid ground for dust elimination in furniture factories. These results describe in detail basic properties of wooden dusts from longitudinal and transversal sanding with various abrasive materials. A specialist dealing with elimination of dust in softwood working industrial plant receives information allowing designing of pneumatic equipment that pipes off the dusts from the working zone, an installation of transport to destination, and dust extraction centre, which is a barrier to their emission into the environment. Practical usefulness of the given results is their main feature because sanding materials typical of basic equalising and smoothing sanding operations on furniture elements were used in the research. These materials were used for working on the most important kinds of softwood in furniture production.

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