Flexible Plywood
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.
Flexible Plywood - 'Bendy Plywood':
With a thinner central core veneer
and two thicker outer veneers, this flexible plywood is used extensively in furniture
and shopfitting, indeed wherever curves are desired in place of flat surfaces, requiring
a panel that is flexible.
Plywood such as this offers a cost-effective way of producing rounded columns and other curved structures of small radius without water or the need for heat-forming.
'Bendy' plywood is less expensive than premade wooden forms and, once it is glued, laminated or veneered, it will hold its shape. It offers significant savings of time & labour. The product is available in long grain (also known as 'column wrap') or cross grain (also known as 'barrel wrap') orientation, and is more cost effective than any other method of plywood shaping. A wide range of finished thickness by bonding more than one sheet together.
Technical details:
- Thickness:
- Aircraft plywood: 0.8mm, 1.5mm, 2.0mm, 3.0mm
- 'Bendy' plywood: 5mm & 8mm
- Standard sizes:
- Aircraft plywood: 1200x1200-1550x1550mm & 2400x1200mm (not 0.8mm)
- 'Bendy' plywood: 2550x1250mm & 1250x2550mm
- Special sizes:
- Other sizes available by agreement
- Minimum Quantity:
- Aircraft plywood: Pallet quantities per item
- 'Bendy' plywood: 20 sheets per item
- Face grades:
- Aircraft plywood: AB/AB, AB/B, BR/BR, C/C
- 'Bendy' plywood: II/III
- Gluing:
- EN 636-1 - Interior/moisture resistant usage
- EN 636-2 - Covered exterior usage
- EN 636-3 - Fully exterior usage
FSC Certification:
Thin plywood is available with FSC Certification & PEFC Certification. You can therefore purchase these products safe in the knowledge that it has been sensibly and sustainably managed all along its supply path from the forest right to the point it arrives with you.
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