Maple Plywood

Maple Throughout Plywood:

Used for many applications where a very strong, white coloured plywood is required, maple plywood is a high-quality, strong plywood of uniform strength.

Typical examples of applications where maple plywood is regularly used include toy & model making, vehicle manufacturing, interior decoration, exterior decoration & for various sports applications.

This product is produced using uniform 1.66mm thickness rotary peeled maple veneers throughout the core and faces. It has been used in many applications where a plywood product offering high-performance & dimensional stability in a consistant manner is required, and has the added advantage of being faced with rotary peeled maple.

Maple Faced Plywood:

This is a description covering 'maple combi plywood' (where every alternate veneer is a different specie to maple) and 'maple twin plywood' (where just the faces are maple, with the core of 100% other wood).

Generally, maple faced plywoods are based on cores of beech plywood, poplar plywood, silver fir plywood, although it can also be mixed with a core of oak plywood, etc. Some of these species offer the ability to achieve a panel that is lighter in weight, without affecting greatly the technical characteristics that maple throughout plywood offers, or to alter the panel to achieve a particular aspect that you may find applies to your particular need.

Production of maple plywood to order:

Maple plywood can be manufactured specifically to your requirements, for instance if you require a plywood with unidirectional veneers - the grain of each veneer laid in the same direction - or you need to achieve a decorative edge with contrasting colors from a different wood, this can be supplied.

Core qualities:

All veneers used in maple throughout plywood are solid, so the core would be described as 'closed' - without open defects. Maple combi plywood & maple twin plywood can be supplied with other woods as closed core veneers, or standard core veneers (allowing some small knotholes and open defects in the core of the other woods).

Technical Details:

Thickness:
- 3-60mm - thicker plywood by arrangement
Standard sizes:
- 1250x1250mm, 2200x1250mm
Special sizes:
- Other sizes available, subject to agreement up to maximum 2550x1850mm
Tolerances:
- Length/width: up to 1m @ ±1mm, up to 2m @ ±2mm , 2m & above @ ±3mm
- Thickness: +0.2mm, -0.5mm
- (Others by arrangement)
Face grades:
- I/II, II/II, II/III, III/III
Gluing:
- EN 636-2 - Covered exterior usage
- EN 636-3 - Fully exterior usage
Other features:
- No open defects throughout the core
- Also available with unidirectional veneers
- Can be supplied as 100% maple throughout plywood, or with a core to any required mix of other species

Average Weights:

The following are approximate weights of maple plywood:

4.5mm (3-ply) = 3.1kg/m2
8.0mm (5-ply) = 5.5kg/m2
11.5mm (7-ply) = 7.8kg/m2
15.0mm (9-ply) = 10.2kg/m2
18.0mm (11-ply) = 12.1kg/m2
21.5mm (13-ply) = 145.3kg/m2
25.0mm (15-ply) = 16.5kg/m2
28.5mm (17-ply) = 18.8kg/m2

30.0mm (18-ply) = 19.5kg/m2
35.0mm (21-ply) = 22.8kg/m2
38.5mm (23-ply) = 24.6kg/m2
40.0mm (24-ply) = 25.6kg/m2
45.0mm (27-ply) = 28.4kg/m2
50.0mm (30-ply) = 31.5kg/m2
56.0mm (33-ply) = 34.7kg/m2
60.0mm (36-ply) = 37.2kg/m2

FSC Certification:

Maple plywood is available with FSC Certification - your guarantee that the plywood has been sensibly and sustainably managed all along its supply path to the point it arrives with you.

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