A review of hardwood plywood

ARDWOOD plywood is both the beauty queen and the workhorse of the wood products manufacturer and home construction markets. For every beautiful pre-finished wall panel or lovely cabinet on display, there is an unseen utilitarian panel providing strength and durability.

Veneers and plywood date back to early Egypt. Overlaid and inlaid furniture removed from the sealed tombs revealed plywood. The Greeks and Romans also used plywood. The first industry to utilize plywood, according to historians, was the piano industry in 1830.

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With the patent in 1840 of the veneer cutting lathe and the veneer slicer in the second half of the l9th century, plywood became important in the manufacture of sewing machines, chairs, organs, desk tops and furniture. Plywood paneled doors were first made in 1890. The standardized stock panel came into being in the early 1900s.

Today probably over 9O7o of all wood household and office furniture is made from hardwood plywood. In home construction, exterior siding, interior wall panels, kitchen and bathroom cabinets, laminated block flooring and flush doors all use hardwood plywood. More than 337o of the decorative wall coverings applied today are pre-finished hardwood panels.

The transportation industry uses hardwood plywood in mobile homes and travel trailers as well as boats and aircraft. Store fixtures, millwork and cabinets also are principal uses. Consumer goods such as sporb equipment, musical instruments, luggage and toys, consume a good percentage of the plywood in their components. The casket industry also is a major user.

Hardwood plywood derives much of its strength from its construction or composition of inner plies or layers. The layers of wood, always an odd number, are joined together with an adhesive under pressure. Usually the grain direction of each layer or ply is at right angles to the grain of the adjacent ply or plies.

Although there are a number of core constructions available faced with hardwood veneers, the most common are the veneer core. the

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