Flexible Plywood
Flexible Plywood - 'Bendy Plywood':
This flexible plywood panel is commonly called 'bendy plywood' or 'flexiply', and is used extensively in furniture and shopfitting, wherever curves are desirable, thus demanding a panel that is extremely flexible. Plywood with this flexible characteristic is manufactured from specially treated veneers, usually with a thinner central core veneer and two thicker 'tenderized' outer veneers. The special construction of particular species of veneers gives an unusually large degree of flexibility and offers a most cost-effective way of producing rounded columns and other curved structures of very small radius in rounded or S-shaped structures without water or the need for heat-forming.
Bendy plywood is more convenient and much lower in cost than premade wooden forms, as this flexible plywood will hold its shape once it is glued, laminated or veneered. This ability offers significant time savings, as curves & circular designs can be produced using flexible plywood without the need for a structural skeleton or special support.
Available in both long grain ('column wrap') and cross grain ('barrel wrap') orientation, a wide range of finished thicknesses can be created by bonding more than one sheet of bendy plywood together. As it does not require any special equipment or prior experience, the use of flexible plywood in any curved project helps reduces the cost in labour and material to a minimum.
NB: Available in single full pallets per item
Sizes other than 2500x1220mm/1220x2500mm sometimes available in half-size 'mini-pallets'
Details:
- Thickness:
- 3mm (3-ply)
- 180 sheets/pallet - average weight = 1.2 kg/m2
- 5mm (3-ply)
- 110 sheets/pallet - average weight = 2.0 kg/m2 (bending radius = approx 5cm)
- 8mm (3-ply)
- 68 sheets/pallet - average weight = 3.2 kg/m2 (bending radius = approx 10cm)
- 9mm (3-ply)
- 68 sheets/pallet - average weight = 3.6 kg/m2
- 12mm (5-ply)
- 46 sheets/pallet - average weight = 4.8 kg/m2 (bending radius = approx 20cm)
- 16mm (5-ply)
- 34 sheets/pallet - average weight = 6.4 kg/m2
- (Other thickness by agreement)
- 3mm (3-ply)
- Standard sizes:
- 2500x1220mm , 3120x1850mm, 2820x2070mm (long grain)
- 1220x2500mm, 1850x3120mm, 3070x2820mm (cross grain)
- Special sizes:
- Other sizes available by agreement
- Face grades:
- II/II, II/III
- Gluing:
- EN 636-1 - Interior/moisture resistant usage
- EN 636-2 - Covered exterior usage
Thin Birch Plywood - 'Aircraft Plywood':
Also commonly known as aircraft plywood, this thin birch plywood can be supplied with a standard glueline or a special compound that offers much more flexibility, to accomodate designs that mean you will be bending plywood to an extremely small radius.
This product is regularly used in the manufacture of aircraft, boats & toys, and can be supplied in pallet quantities direct from the mill.
NB: Available to special order in minimum 500 sheets mixed per shipment
Details:
- Thickness:
- 0.4mm, 0.6mm, 0.8mm, 1.0mm, 1.2mm, 1.5mm, 2.0mm (3-ply)
- 2.0mm, 2.5mm, 3.0mm (5-ply)
- 3.0mm (6-ply)
- 3.5mm (7-ply)
- 4.0mm (8-ply)
- 4.5mm (9-ply)
- 5.0mm (10-ply)
- 6.0mm (12-ply)
- Standard sizes:
- 1200x1200mm, 1220x1220mm, 1270x1270mm, 1500x1500mm, 1525x1525mm, 1550x1550mm & 2400x1200mm (1.5mm & thicker only)
- Special sizes:
- Other sizes available by agreement
- Gluing:
- EN 636-2 - Covered exterior usage (standard glue used in production)
- EN 636-1 - Interior/moisture resistant usage (special glue offering extra flexibility)
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Face grades:- AB/AB
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- AB/AB
FSC / PEFC Certification:
Winwood Products is a supplier of FSC certified flexible plywood or PEFC certified flexible 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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