Plywood

Unusual circumstances, specialities or a question of weight – we can draw on our line of plywoods to offer you many different solutions comprising mouldings, bending plywoods or lightweight building boards. Moreover, we offer a broad line of plywoods made of birch or softwoods to meet specific needs.

The close and coordinated collaboration with our suppliers keeps us flexible and able to adapt at all times. Hence, we are able to offer cut-to-sizes and lamianted panels (HPL, CPL, veneers etc.) with different core material (albasia, okoume etc.).

Albasia / Falcata (Albizzia Falcataria)

Albasia is a fast growing wood species from Indonesia. Its convincing technical properties make it the perfect poplar substitute. Our albasia products offer the perfect industrial solution deriving from 100% ecological sources. Thanks to the weight advantage compared to poplar plywood and the manifold different surface solutions we have become a partner to several different industries and supply the raw material for street vehicles, yachts and cruiseliners as well as for the stand- and fair building.

Albasia falcata is one of the most ecological and sustainable plywood solution available on the market. In the framework ouf our cooperation with the NVO Fairventures Worldwide, we plant three trees with every single cubic metre plywood we purchase in Indonesia.

All advantages of albasia at one glance:

FLEGT licensed
FSC^®-certified upon request
E1 according to the new German regulations within EN 16516 starting Jan. 1st 2020
With 320 kg / m³ one of the lightest plywoods available
Naturally hardly flammable – without treatment; tested according to ECE R118, annex 6/7/8
High quality requirements for our industry customers
Plantation grown
Supply security and price stability

We offer individual surface solutions for all kind of final use:

Albasia 100% for CPL, HPL, priming etc.
Albasia MDF for thin foils, decors etc.
Albasia MLH with hardwood face/back
Albasia primed – according to your requested RAL code

We will be happy to provide you with more information regarding delivery from our stock in Antwerp or direct shipments from Indonesia – just contact us!

Albasia plywood data sheet EN

Okoume Plywood

Plywood made out of okoume is a well known product in many panel consuming industries for decades, especially in the yacht building. As a tropical light plywood with aprox. 450 kg / m³, okoume is a more resistant alternative than albasia. Next to that, it has a beautiful look thanks to its reddish colour. Our whole okoume portfolio comes FSC^®-certified, since sustainability and legality of the wood play a major role in our company philosophy.

Standard dimensions (also ex warehouse Antwerp)

250 x 125 / 244 x 122
3 – 40 mm
B/B with 0.8 mm face/back veneers

Bending Plywood

Whether for building furniture, trade fair stands or decorative uses – bending plywood is an outstanding solution for special formats. In collaboration with our European and Brazilian partners, we can offer you by the package exactly the quantity you require for your project, even on short notice.

Our bending plywood is always three-ply and as a rule (depending on origin) from fromager/ceiba and has an average weight of ca. 360 – 380 kg / m³.

Standard dimensions

250 x 125 / 250 x 122 / 244 x 122 cm and vice-versa
3 / 5 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 12 mm

Birch Plywood Substitutes

Due to the sanctions which have come into force in 2022, Russia will no longer be able to export birch plywood to the European market. The European productions will hardly be able to fulfill the demand for this cost-price-ideal product, therefore we have started to reach out for new alternatives and substitutes.

Our approach is to find the perfect product for the individual use of our customer – this turns out to be a challenging task. However, thanks to our wide worldwide network of plywood suppliers, we are able to offer a diverse product portfolio for your application. Depending on the final use, we recommend following birch plywood substitutes:

Albasia falcata
Okoumé
Fromager/hevea mixed core products (especially for film faced panels)
Eucalyptus

Industrial and Film faced Plywood

Our warehouse portfolio also carries the standard and commodity products such as industrial plywood or film faced and antislip panels. We usually carry stock for all relevant dimensions and thicknesses.

Standard dimensions Industrial plywood
Reddish surface, poplar core

250 x 125 / 310 x 153 cm
5 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 12 / 15 / 18 / 22 mm

Standard dimensions film/film and wire/mesh

250 x 125 / 300 x 150 cm
9 / 12 / 15 / 18 / 21 / 27 / 30 mm

Softwood Plywood

Last, but not least, we also are able to offer you the standard assortments in softwood plywood. We have specialized in cut-to-sizes in elliotis pine plywood for the packaging industry, but can also offer the standard dimensions: