Plywood Boards
Plywood was originally developed to provide panels with dimensional stability and good strength properties both along and across the panel. Plywood is an engineered wood product, made from straight, well-grown timber suitable for a wide range of applications. Plywood has an EN product standard covering its use in exterior conditions. To enhance the durability, appropriate coatings or preservative treatments are added to plywood. British Standard BS EN 636 refers to bond quality and surface appearance, the durability of the timber species used in the veneer and the veneer quality. In plywood, the higher mechanical (structural) properties are in the direction of the major axis, which is usually the longer side.
Plywood can maintain a high performance under a wide variety of environmental conditions. The high strength to weight ratios are influenced by the species used, softwood and hardwood, and also on the glues used in production. Plywood is generally made from veneers that are peeled from a log and are bonded together with an adhesive, with the grain of adjacent veneers at right angles to each other. The adhesive is cured by pressing the panel using heated platens.
As defined in BS EN 309,
- Plywood Wood-based panel consisting of an assembly of layers bonded together with the direction of the grain in adjacent layers, usually at right angles.
- Veneer is a thin sheet of wood not more than 7mm in thickness.
- Ply is either a single veneer, or two or more veneers joined edge to edge or end to end.
- Layer is either one ply or two or more plies, glued together with their grain direction parallel, or with another material.
- Multi-ply Plywood formed of more than three layers.
- urea-formaldehyde (UF) - only suitable for interior use.
- phenol-formaldehyde (PF) - has greater moisture resistance, suitable for use in humid or in exterior situations.
- melamine-urea-formaldehyde (MUF) - for exterior or even marine plywood.
- Structural plywood are used in, floor decking, flat roofing, wall sheathing, concrete formwork, external cladding.
- Marine plywood has a very high performance under severe exposure conditions, and used in ship or boat building.
- Utility plywood is intended for non-construction applications, for joinery, furniture and mostly for interior uses.
- Class 1 - for interior applications with no risk of wetting,
- Class 2 - for use in protected exterior applications,
- Class 3 - for use in unprotected external applications.
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12mm Firesure Premium Arch Dricon Plywood Euroclass B - 2440mm x 1220mm
12mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
12mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Firesure Premium Arch Dricon Plywood is an Euroclass B, enhanced reaction to fire performance board for interior use. It has been pressure impregnated with a special flame retardant solution Arch Dricon and kiln dried. The chemical used in the impregnation proce..
12mm Firesure Premium Arch Dricon Plywood Euroclass C - 2440mm x 1220mm
12mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
12mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Firesure Premium Arch Dricon Plywood is an Euroclass C, enhanced reaction to fire performance board for interior use. It has been pressure impregnated with a special flame retardant solution Arch Dricon and kiln dried. The chemical used in the impregnation proce..
12mm Wisa Spruce Plywood Special CE2+ - 2440mm x 1220mm - FSC Certified
12mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
12mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Wisa Spruce Plywood Special CE2+ is a smooth, strong, structural multipurpose plywood panel with a superior surface quality, made from spruce veneers from wood harvested from FSC certified forests in Finland. The panel is lightweight, strong and rigid and is used in load ..
12mm Wisa Spruce TG4 Plywood Special CE2+ - 2400mm x 600mm - FSC Certified
12mm x 2400mm x 600mm - 1.44m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
12mm x 2400mm x 600mm Wisa Spruce TG4 Plywood Special CE2+ is a smooth, strong, structural multipurpose plywood panel with a superior surface quality, made from spruce veneers from wood harvested from FSC certified forests in Finland. The panel is lightweight, strong and rigid and is used in lo..
15mm Russian Birch Plywood BB/CP - 2440mm x 1220mm - FSC Certified
15mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
15mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Russian Birch Plywood BB/CP, FSC Certified, strong general purpose board for internal applications, a structural component in humid conditions. Has superior strength and stability, and also superior resistance to loss of bond strength with time. Birch plywood is made..
18mm Latvian Birch White Melamine Double Sided Grade A Plywood CE2+ - 2440mm x 1220mm - PEFC Certified
18mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
18mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Latvian Birch Plywood CE2+, PEFC Certified, White Melamine Double Sided Grade A panel for structural applications. A strong general purpose board for internal applications, a structural component in humid conditions. Has superior strength and stability, and also superior..
18mm Wisa Spruce Form MDO Plywood - 2440mm x 1220mm - For Concrete Formwork - FSC Certified
18mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
18mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Wisa Spruce Form MDO Plywood is a special panel for formwork applications where a matt concrete finish is desired. The medium density overlay (MDO) on the face is designed in such a way to transfer to the concrete face a consistent, smooth matt surface. The panel giv..
18mm Wisa Spruce TG2LE Plywood Special CE2+ - 2400mm x 1220mm - FSC Certified
18mm x 2400mm x 1220mm - 2.93m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
18mm x 2400mm x 1220mm Wisa Spruce TG2LE Plywood Special CE2+ is a smooth, strong, structural multipurpose plywood panel with a superior surface quality, made from spruce veneers from wood harvested from FSC certified forests in Finland. The panel is lightweight, strong and rigid and is used in..
56mm Kingspan Thermaroof TR31 PIR bonded to Plywood (pack of 20)
1200x2400 - 57.60m2 show quantity discountsDelivery Time: 3 - 5 days
Guide Price: £1,123.92 (£1,348.70 inc VAT)
£19.51/m2 (£23.41/m2 inc VAT)
show quantity discounts56mm Kingspan Thermaroof TR31 is the flat roof insulation comprising a high performance rigid PIR thermoset insulation core faced with an FSC certified 6 mm nominal thickness WBP exterior grade plywood on its upper surface and a low emissivity composite foil facing on its lower surface. T..
62mm Cellecta Hexatherm XPLY Plywood Thermal Laminate Roof Board
1200x2400mm - 2.88m2 Delivery Time: 2 - 4 days
62mm Cellecta Hexatherm XPLY is a high performance extruded polystyrene thermal insulation roof board bonded to a 12mm plywood laminate facing, also suitable for internal walls and floors. It combines the benefits of high performance extruded polystyrene with a facing board to produce a composite th..
96mm Celotex TD4000 PIR Flat Roof Insulation Board with Plywood
TD4000 - 2400 x 1200 show quantity discounts
Guide Price: £79.56 (£95.47 inc VAT)
£27.63/m2 (£33.16/m2 inc VAT)
show quantity discountsCelotex TD4000 comprises a polyisocyanurate rigid foam insulation core, with a thermal conductivity of 0.022 W/mK, and low emissivity aluminium foil facings on both sides bonded to a layer of 5.5mm WBP exterior grade plywood.APPLICATIONCelotex TD4000 is purpose designed for use in light traffic flat..
9mm Elliottis Pine Softwood Plywood C+/C CE2+ - 2440mm x 1220mm - FSC Certified
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Elliottis Pine Softwood Plywood C+/C CE2+ is a smooth, strong, structural multipurpose plywood panel with a superior surface quality, made from spruce veneers from wood harvested from FSC certified forests in Brazil. The panel is lightweight, strong and rigi..
9mm Firesure Classic Arch ATP Plywood Euroclass C - 2440mm x 1220mm
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Firesure Classic Arch ATP Plywood is an Euroclass C, enhanced reaction to fire performance board for interior use. It has been pressure impregnated with a special flame retardant solution Arch ATP and kiln dried. The chemical used in the impregnation process and the process its..
9mm Latvian Birch Plywood BB/BB CE2+ - 2440mm x 1220mm - FSC Certified
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Latvian Birch Plywood BB/BB CE2+, FSC Certified, strong general purpose board for internal applications, a structural component in humid conditions. Has superior strength and stability, and also superior resistance to loss of bond strength with time. Birch plywood is made up of..
9mm Russian Birch Plywood BB/BB CE2+ - 1525mm x 3050mm - FSC Certified
9mm x 3050mm x 1525mm - 4.65m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
9mm x 1525mm x 3050mm Russian Birch Plywood BB/BB CE2+, FSC Certified, strong general purpose board for internal applications, a structural component in humid conditions. Has superior strength and stability, and also superior resistance to loss of bond strength with time. Birch plywood is made ..
9mm Wisa Spruce Plywood Special Grade Osmose A500 CE2+ - 2440mm x 1220mm - FSC Certified
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm - 2.98m2 Delivery Time: 1 - 2 days
9mm x 2440mm x 1220mm Wisa Spruce TG4 Plywood Special Grade Osmose A500 CE2+ is a smooth, strong, structural multipurpose plywood panel with a superior surface quality, made from spruce veneers from wood harvested from FSC certified forests in Finland. The panel is lightweight, strong..