Oak Plywood
This product can be used in a variety of
different ways and is suitable for many applications. It is commonly requested for
its hard-wearing surface layer veneer (e.g. for flooring applications), or due to
its high strength (e.g. musical instruments). 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 oak throughout the panel.
Oak Throughout Plywood:
These panels are generally produced using standard 1.5mm thickness peeled oak veneers for the faces and also to make the core of the plywood. However, oak plywood can be manufactured using different thickness veneer, for example if 2.5mm faces or mixed thickness core were required, this could be accomodated, whether as oak throughout plywood, or as 'oak combi plywood' or 'oak twin plywood' (see Oak Faced Plywood below).
Oak throughout plywood offers a very strong and stable alternative to lumber, veneered panels or panels manufactured from edge-glued oak lumber strips, while still offering decorative faces and core of peeled oak.
Oak Faced Plywood:
Hard-wearing faces of oak veneer can be bonded onto a core made up of alternating layers of oak and another specie (called 'combi plywood') or with just the faces in oak and the core of 100% another wood (called 'twin plywood'). Typically, oak combi plywood and oak twin plywood are based upon cores of silver fir plywood, beech plywood, maple plywood or poplar plywood. The reasons for choosing this arrangement may be manyfold, but such combinations reduce the weight of the overall panel, to reduce the cost, or to offer a contrasting coloured edge as a decorative feature.
Production of oak plywood to order:
Oak plywood can manufactured exactly to your specific requirements and arranged with a core of with unidirectional veneers so that the strength of the panel is mainly in the one direction, or for aesthetic purposes, for instance, if the edge of the panel is to be seen and end grain of every other core veneer would be detrimental to the overall effect.
Core qualities:
Oak throughout plywood has core veneers that are 'closed' , i.e. without open defects, while oak combi plywood & oak twin plywood is available with closed core veneers, or standard core veneers (allowing some small knotholes and open defects in the core).
Technical details:
- Thickness:
- 4-60mm - thicker plywood by arrangement
- Standard sizes:
- 1250x1250mm, 2200x1250mm
- Special sizes:
- Other sizes available, subject to agreement up to maximum 2550x1850mm
- Tolerances:
- Length/width @ ± 2.0mm
- Thickness @ ± 0.2mm
- 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% oak throughout plywood, or with a core to any required mix of other species
FSC Certification:
Oak plywood is available with FSC Certification. This means you can purchase this product 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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