An urgent challenge for material science is to create new composite materials based on wood, glue and sorbing filler with increased performance characteristics as wear resistance, humidity resistance, elasticity, strength, and reduced free formaldehyde emission. A binder used in the glued composite materials under study was based on a KBÚ Kronores 1000-1800 carbamide-formaldehyde adhesive with the E1 formaldehyde emission standard. Adsorbents as fine-dispersed powders of shungite, subunit, active carbon BAU, and various granulated samples of carbon black were tested as an active filler. Mineral sorbents as the KJB and KBE-2 kaolins and the acid-activated montmorillonite were introduced into the composition of the material. To increase an adsorption capacity, the sorbents under study were preliminary treated using a mechanical activation by dry grinding up to powdery conditions (particle size was less than 40 microns); vibromechanical grinding by a MTA KUTESZ vibrating mill (Hungary); nanosize degradation by a DYNO-MILL MULTI LAB bead mill (Spain) applying a wet grinding technique; colloid powdering to obtain a nanosized fraction using zirconium pellets in liquid medium under the action of mechanical forces; acid activation in a 2М H2SO4 at 97 C during 7.5 h; heat treatment in a furnace at T = 400 and 600 C; electromagnetic field (EMF). These methods of modification permitted us to achieve stable sizes of fine-dispersed materials and provide a particle grinding up to the sizes ranged from 90 to 40 micron, and a 3-5-fold increase of the specific surface area of the samples. Formaldehyde emission from the composite materials was estimated. It was shown that the sorbate fillers reduced by half the formaldehyde emission compared with that for a check sample free of sorbent additive. The most promising sorbent is the shungite sample after mechanical activation Shm_act with a particle sizes <40 micron in amount of 15 % of a total mass of wood-glued composite. Moreover, the addition of the sorbent into the composite facilitated the glueing processes by accelerating the penetration into a veneer and homogeneous surface distribution; it also provides a less glue consumption. The fillers reduce the residual stresses in a glue layer that is accompanied by an increase in adhesion bonds. The strength of the obtained composite materials was determined using a LABTEST machine. It was found that a maximal strength (4.37 МРа) was achieved when the mechanically activated shungite (Shm_ac) was added.