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The use is described of rigid foam cores in panels, especially doors, of the kind comprising a foam core (22) between two molded skins (8,10). The weather-resistance, especially the resistance to thermally-induced bowing, of such panels is improved by forming the panel of at least one vacuum-formed thermoplastics skin (8,10) adhesively bonded to a substantially open-cell, rigid foam core (22). If the foam has frangible cell walls, it can be conformed to accommodate the depressed zones of a molded overlying door skin (8,10) by crumbling under compression, with fracture of the cell walls to accommodate the zones. A preferred open-cell rigid foam is a phenolic foam reinforced with finely divided particulate filler.

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