Plywood

Plywood is made by gluing together a number of thin veneers or plies of softwood or hardwood. There are always an odd number of veneers and each ply is at a right angle to the one below, this gives the material its strength. The more veneers used, the stronger the plywood becomes.

Both the type of glue and veneers determine the suitability of a sheet for a particular application. Plywood is graded for exterior or interior use depending upon the water resistance of the glue used to stick the plies together. Combining a beautiful natural veneer surface with a durable core, our plywood provides the strength of lumber, but with greater efficiency and versatility.

Thanks to the immediate access to a tremendous selection of high-grade veneers, substrates, panel sizes and thicknesses for a wide range of applications, we can even offer a pre-finished hardwood plywood program and hardwood-faced panels with decorative overlay backs to provide a single solution to both exterior and interior applications. We control the process and maintain the highest standards of quality from start to finish.

Blockboard

Blockboard is a wood based panel, made up of a core of wood strips glued together. The strips may be up to about 50mm wide and are placed edge to edge and sandwiched between veneers of softwood, hardwood or thin MDF or particleboard, glued under high pressure. The internal strips are generally made of light weight poplar wood, spruce, pine, paulonia, falcate, etc. With very good screw withdrawal strength, Blockboard are widely used to make doors, tables, shelves, paneling and partition walls.

Medium & High Density Fiberboard (MDF & HDF)

MDF, or medium density fiberboard (HDF stands for high density fiberboard), is a kind of man-made panel made from composite wood. Specifically, MDF is made from wood wastes (specifically the fibers) that are glued together using heat, resin or pressure. MDF is a very versatile building material that can be used in a variety of applications. This includes making cabinets and mouldings. MDF’s characteristics include being smooth and resistance to warping.

MDF is a better material compared to other popular materials like particleboard, wood planks or plywood for a number of reasons. First, it has a very smooth texture mainly because wood fibers used in making the MDF are also smooth and fine. MDF also has minimal reaction to moisture. This means MDF will not warp or swell when used in environments that have a high humidity.

MDF is used for many purposes by contractors and builders. It is used in making various furniture and shelving. It is also used for making laminate flooring, decorative moulds and doors. It is also a great material to use when building rooms that need to be insulated from heat or sound.

Particle Board

Particleboard is also called chipboard. It is a composite panel product consisting of cellulosic particles of various sizes that are bonded together with a synthetic resin or binder under heat and pressure. Particle geometry, resin levels, board density and manufacturing processes may be modified to produce products suitable for specific end uses. At the time of manufacture, additives can be incorporated to impart specific performance enhancements including greater dimensional stability, increased fire proofing and moisture resistance.

Our particleboard gives the users the consistent quality and design flexibility needed for fast, efficient production lines and quality consumer products, such as bookcases, packaging boxes, shelves, etc. Our particleboard panels are manufactured in a variety of dimensions and with a wide range of physical properties that provides maximum design flexibility for customers and end users. Our particle board products include: plain, melamine-faced, hollow-core particle boards.

Oriented Strand Board (OSB)

Oriented strand board (OSB), is an engineered wood particle board formed by adding adhesives and then compressing layers of wood strands (flakes) in specific orientations.

OSB is a material with high mechanical properties that make it particularly suitable for load-bearing applications in construction. The most common uses are as sheathing in walls, flooring, and roof decking. For exterior wall applications, panels are available with a radiant-barrier layer pre-laminated to one side; this eases installation and increases energy performance of the building envelope. OSB also sees some use in furniture production.

OSB panels have no internal gaps or voids, and are water-resistant, although they do require additional membranes to achieve impermeability to water and are not recommended for exterior use. The finished product has properties similar to plywood, but is uniform and cheaper. When tested to failure, OSB has a greater load-bearing capacity than milled wood panels.

All wood-based structural use panels can be cut and installed with the same ease and types of equipment used with solid wood.

Hardboard

Hardboard, also called high-density fiberboard (HDF), is a type of fiberboard, which is an engineered wood product.

It is similar to particleboard and medium-density fiberboard, but is denser and much stronger and harder because it is made out of exploded wood fibers that have been highly compressed. Consequently, the density of hardboard is usually more than 900KGS/M3. It differs from particleboard in that the bonding of the wood fibers requires no additional materials, although resin is often added. Unlike particleboard, it will not split or crack.

Hardboard is produced in either a wet or dry process. The wet process leaves only one smooth side while the dry processed hardboard is smooth on both sides. Tempered hardboard is hardboard that has been coated with a thin film of linseed oil and then baked; this gives it more water resistance, impact resistance, hardness, rigidity and tensile strength.

Our hardboards can be widely used in construction, flooring, furniture, home appliances, automobiles and cabinetry, and is popular among acrylic and oil painters as a painting surface due to its economical price 

Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL)

Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is a layered composite of wood veneers and adhesive. Once it is fabricated into billets of various thicknesses and widths, it can be cut at the factory into stock for headers and beams, flanges for prefabricated wood I-joists, or for other specific uses. Veneer thicknesses range from 1.2mm to 6mm and common species are Paulonia, Poplar, Pine and Fir.

Our LVL products have been widely applied in construction, door, furniture as well as packaging industries.