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Multiplex Beech Plywood

High-quality commercial & technical plywoods
Multiplex Beech Plywood: Beech throughout plywood
  • Available from stock
  • Stock thickness: 6.5mm-60mm (others to special production)
  • Stock size: 2500x1250mm / 2550x1250mm
  • To special order in full pallets per item up to maximum:
    2500x1500mm (beech throughout plywood)
    3670x1870mm (beech faced plywood & blockboard)

Overview

Multiplex beech plywood is a versatile material renowned for its exceptional strength, workability & hardness in service.

Plywood made from beech boasts exceptional mechanical properties, ensuring reliable performance and predictable behaviour under stressful conditions. As a result, it is widely used in industrial & engineering applications, as well as in the production of high-quality worktops, workbenches, furniture, toys & musical instruments, and other applications that require good machinability, and high resistance & durability.

Multiplex beech plywood is particularly well-suited for shopfitting and decorative furniture manufacture, where the exposed edges of the panel can showcase the uniform colour and grain of beech throughout the panel.

Beech is also available in the form of: beech Triply 3-layer panel, beech fineline, and decorative beech veneered panels & doors

Winwood Products is a beech plywood supplier offering the configurations / options detailed below

Beech Throughout Plywood

Multiplex Beech Plywood: Beech throughout plywood
  • Stock panels available from single sheets / Non-stock in minimum pack per item
  • Stock thickness: 6mm, 12mm, 18mm, 24mm, 25mm, 30mm, 40mm
  • Stock size: 2500x1250mm / 2550x1250mm
  • Special manufacture up to maximum 2500x1500mm (full pallets per item)

Beech throughout plywood is constructed entirely from 1.4mm, 2.2mm or 2.5mm beech veneers.

  • Stock sizes:
    • 2500x1250mm, 2550x1250mm
  • Max size:
    • 2500x1500mm
  • Stock thickness:
    • 6mm, 12mm, 18mm, 24mm (1.4mm veneers)
      25mm, 30mm, 40mm (2.2mm / 2.5mm veneers)
  • Gluing:
    • EN 314-2 Class 3
  • Class II (B) Beech Face

    • Light colour irregularities up to 1/6 of the face or maximum 3 sound knots or point knots
    • One split max 3mm wide at the edge up to 1/10 of the panel length allowed if repaired with filler
    • One split up to 5mm wide (4mm if unfilled) up to maximum 1/5 of the panel length if repaired with filler
    • May be jointed for width, provided veneers are very similar colour

    Unjointed, single-piece face veneer

    Beech Plywood: Unointed Beech veneer - Class II (face)

    Jointed face veneer

    Beech Plywood: Beech veneer - Class II (face)
  • Class III (BB) Beech Reverse

    As jointed class II (B) face plus...

    • Knots up to 30mm diameter: 4mm & 6mm
    • Knots up to 60mm diameter for all other thicknesses
    • Slight contrast allowed to the odd strip
    • Patches may be present
    Beech Plywood: Beech veneer - Class III (back)

Decorative Beech Faced Plywood

Multiplex Beech Plywood: Beech faced plywood - beech/fir combi plywood
  • Produced to order
  • Standard thickness 4mm to 50mm
  • Up to maximum 3670x1870mm dependent upon core plywood type
  • Minimum quantity may apply depending upon the product required

Sliced beech face veneers, available in crown or quarter cut, can be bonded to cores of various species to suit specific applications.

This versatility allows us to create a range of products, including beech faced lightweight poplar plywood for lighter weight, beech faced birch plywood for a decorative edge at a lower cost, or specialized end-use products likeas beech faced gaboon / okoume lightweight marine plywood.

  • Typical sizes:
    • 2440 / 2500x1220mm, 3050x1220mm, 3100 / 3670x1850mm
  • Max size:
    • 3670x1850mm
  • Thickness range:
    • 4mm up to 60mm

Thickness, Weight & Construction

Beech Throughout Plywood:

Manufactured using 2.2mm or 2.5mm veneers throughout

  • Stock thickness
    • 25mm, 30mm, 40mm
  • Stock size
    • 2500x1250mm / 2550x1250mm (40mm only)
  • Standard sizes
    • 2500x1250mm, 2500x1530mm
    • 1250x2500mm, 1500x2500mm (cross grain)
  • Standard thicknesses:
  • 18mm =14.4 kg/m2
  • 21mm =16.8 kg/m2
  • 25mm =20.0 kg/m2
  • 30mm =24.0 kg/m2
  • 40mm =32.0 kg/m2
  • 50mm =40.0 kg/m2
  • 60mm =48.0 kg/m2

Beech Throughout 'Fineply' Plywood

Manufactured using 1.4mm veneers throughout

  • Stock thickness
    • 6.5mm, 12mm, 18mm, 24mm
  • Stock size
    • 2500x1250mm
  • Standard sizes
    • 2500x1250mm, 2500x1500mm
    • 1250x1950mm, 1250x2200mm, 1250x2500mm, 1500x2500mm (cross grain)
  • Standard thicknesses:
  • 4mm =3.2 kg/m2
  • 6.5mm =5.2 kg/m2
  • 9mm =7.2 kg/m2
  • 12mm =9.6 kg/m2
  • 15mm =12.0 kg/m2
  • 18mm =14.4 kg/m2
  • 21mm =16.8 kg/m2
  • 24mm =19.2 kg/m2
  • 27mm =21.6 kg/m2
  • 30mm =24.0 kg/m2

Technical Information

Technical Details, General:

  • Thickness
    • See above (non-standard thickness by arrangement)
  • Standard sizes
    • See above
  • Tolerances
    • As per EN 315 (other tolerances by arrangement)
  • Face combinations
    • II/III held in stock (40mm = closed core construction)
    • I/II, II/II, II/III, III/III to special order in pack quantity
  • Specification
    • EN 636-2 - Protected exterior usage
    • EN 636-3 - Fully exterior usage
  • Bonding
    • EN 636-2 = EN 314-2 Class 2 (Protected exteriors only)
    • EN 636-3 = EN 314-2 Class 3 (Fully exterior)
    • (see above for panel performance)
    • All glues meet Class E1 requirements (test method EN 717 Part 2)
  • Fire reaction
    • ≥ 9mm: EN 13501-1 Class D-s2, d0
    • < 9mm: EN 13501-1 Class E

Bending Strength (EN 636)

Applicable to closed core, clear glue production

  • 25mm: F40/30, E70/70
  • 30mm: F40/30, E70/50
  • 40mm: F40/30, E80/60
  • 50mm: F40/30, E80/70
  • 60mm: F30/30, E70/60