the invention relates to a process and to a device for producing a coherent web from long slivers which are produced by breaking - up the raw material fed and are then compacted to give a web which is subsequently glued and then pressed together with other webs to give blocks or the like . the raw material used is sticks or slabs which are split parallel to the fibers by vertically oscillating cutting motions , to give long slivers which are then compacted by ramming to give a web .