Beech Plywood

Beech Plywood: Beech veneer

Beech plywood is a high-quality product that is used for many different applications, ranging from industrial & engineering use, to decorative furniture & shopfitting and furniture manufacture. It is used where lower-cost, quality plywood products such as birch are not suitable, and used for its performance or aesthetic purposes. It is commonly used where its high strength & rigidity or the hard-wearing surface layer veneer is of major importance (e.g. workbenches, flooring, industrial & school furniture, engineering applications). It is also regularly used in the manufacture of decorative furniture, where the core is to be seen, or even accentuated, and the desire is to have an edge with the uniform colour of beech throughout the panel.

This product is available as beech fineline plywood

Winwood Products is a beech plywood supplier offering the following configurations/options:

Beech throughout plywood:

Beech Plywood: Beech throughout plywood

This panel has high mechanical properties and can be relied upon to perform regularly and in a predictable manner under stressful conditions.

Beech throughout plywood can be supplied using a combination of different veneer thicknesses. The standard construction is based around 2.5mm core with 1.66mm faces. However, we can also offer any combination of 0.8mm, 1.6mm & 2.5mm veneers as standard (other thicknesses can be produced to order).

Beech throughout plywood is used in the manufacture of toys, vehicles, workbenches & tables, decorative furniture, and many other applications where a plywood product offering high-performance & dimensional stability in a consistant manner is required.

Beech faced plywood:

Beech Plywood: Beech faced plywood - beech/fir combi plywood

These products can be supplied with other species to achieve plywood based on poplar plywood or fir plywood core, in order to offer a product that is lighter in weight, or for other technical characteristics, while retaining a face veneer of beech.

Plywood such as this can be supplied as 'beech combi plywood' - where every other veneer is beech, or 'beech twinply' - where only the face veneers are of beech.

Unidirectional beech plywood (beech drawerside plywood):

Beech Plywood: Unidirectional beech drawerside plywood

Beech plywood can be made specifically to your exact requirements, for instance should you require a plywood with unidirectional veneers. In this case, the grain of each veneer laid in the same direction - or to achieve a decorative edge with contrasting colors, this can be achieved.

This more unusual layup increases the strength & stiffness in the direction of the grain, and offers better more flexibility in the other. This has the two-fold effect of allowing the panel to bend across the grain where a plywood is required to be more flexible, and makes the panel act in a more similar manner to timber. Sometimes this product is called beech LVL - laminated veneer lumber).

In addition to the physical aspects listed above, unidirectional beech plywood is regularly used where the appearance of the panel edges is of paramount importance. As the end grain of every other core veneer is removed, this has the effect of reducing the number of torn fibres that would spoil the overall effect. This product is used as beech drawerside plywood, beech plywood skirtings, etc.

In the normal construction of this product, the core veneer directly under the face is bonded at right angles to all other layers. This has been found to offer increased stability across the face and therefore to reduce the incidence of splitting on the face veneer, although the mill can lay all the veneers in the same direction if specifically instructed.

Similar products:

Beech 'Triply' 3-layer panels

Similar product: Beech 'Triply' 3-layer panels

A solid lumber panel composed of 3 layers of beech edge glued together.

Core qualities:

The veneers used in beech plywood cores can be graded to ensure there are no open defects anywhere within the core. These are described as 'closed' cores, while standard cores may allow small open defects within the core, whether the core is of beech throughout, or a combination of other woods.

Technical details:

Decorative veneer faced beech plywood:

Any of our wide range of decorative real wood veneers can be bonded onto beech plywood core.

Average weights:

The following are approximate weights & typical construction of standard beech plywood:

Beech throughout plywood - special veneers

As an alternative to standard construction, we offer beech plywood using the same thickness of veneer throughout the construction of the plywood before sanding, used for more specialist end-uses:

FSC / PEFC Certification:

Winwood Products is a supplier of FSC certified beech plywood and/or PEFC certified beech plywood.

These certification systems allow you to purchase wood-based products safe in the knowledge that they have been sensibly and sustainably managed all along the supply path from when the tree was cut down from the forest, right to the point they arrive with you.

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