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Birch Plywood

Hanson Plywood’s collection of H Birch Plywood  is sourced from carefully selected and trusted mills that have a pedigree in producing high quality plywood.

Typical Applications:

  • Furniture components
  • Packaging
  • Shopfitting & display cabinets
  • Model making
  • General construction
  • Decorative applications
  • Engineering
  • Pattern Making
  • Concrete formwork
  • Engineered wood flooring
  • Staging & Seating

Key Features

  • Multiply Construction
  • Consistency in appearance and quality
  • Structural
  • Decorative
  • Class E1 Glue
  • FSC® or PEFC Certified Material
  • Comes in a variety of thicknesses and sizes
Birch - Laser Plywood

The use of Interior Glue mitigates the risk of scorching when cutting with a laser. Frequent quality checks have been carried out to ensure that the boards go above and beyond allowable twisting tolerances and are as flat as possible in order to assist with machining.

Typical Applications:

  • Laser cutting
  • CNC routing
  • Die cutting
  • Toy making
  • Furniture Manufacture

Key Features:

  • Laserable
  • High Quality
  • Multiply Construction
  • Consistency in appearance and quality
  • Structural
  • Decorative
  • FSC® or PEFC Certified Material
  • Class E1 Glue
  • Comes in a variety of thicknesses and sizes
Thin Birch Plywood- Interior & Exterior Glue

The product’s flexibility allows it to be bent and moulded to fit those applications where curvature is required but a reasonable degree of strength must be maintained.

Typical Applications: 

  • Models
  • Instruments
  • Toys
  • Furniture
  • Shopfitting
  • Engineering
  • Pattern makers
  • Craft Work
  • Laser Cutting

Key Features:

  • High Quality
  • Class E1 Glue
  • EN 71-3 (Safety of Toys)
  • 100% PEFC
  • Comes in a variety of thicknesses and sizes
HD Contract Flooring/Floor Deck Plywood™

High density Birch Plywood panels featuring a consistent grain structure and optimum strength to weight ratio.

HD Contract Flooring Plywood is ideal for load-bearing decks or subfloor applications.

Specific engineering data including bending strength and modulus elasticity are provided within this range of panels, thus making them ideal for a multitude of structural flooring applications.

Typical Applications

  • Load-bearing floor decks
  • Subfloor

Key Features

  • High Quality
  • Structural/Decorative
  • FSC® or PEFC
Special Coated Birch Plywood

A range of technical pre-finished panels for a wide variety of end uses.

Products include: 

  • Smooth Phenolic film faced Birch
  • Textured/Patterned film faced
  • Melamine faced

Examples of uses and industries: 

  • Vehicle Body Building
  • External Walkways
  • Scaffolding
  • Kitchen and Furniture making (White Melamine Birch)
  • Concrete Formwork (Smooth Phenol)
  • Horseboxes
  • Stages
Quick Reference Guide - Birch
Thickness (MM)
3
4
5
6
8
9
12
15
18
21
24
27
30
35
40
50
Available Grades
Typical Density (kg/m3)
Typical Weight/8x4 (Kg)
Number of Plies
Gluing Options
Thickness Tolerance * * Sanded panels only
B/BB, S+/BB, BB/BB, BB/CP, CP/CP, C/C
700kg/m3
6.2
3
E1 Int
+0.3
/-0.4
8.3
3
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.3
/-0.5
10.4
4/5
E1 Int
+0.4
/-0.5
12.5
5
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.4
/-0.5
16.6
6/7
E1 Int
+1
/-0.5
18.7
7
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.4
/-0.6
25
9
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.5
/-0.7
31.2
11
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.6
/-0.8
37.5
13
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.7
/-0.9
43.7
15
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.8
/-1.0
50
17
E1 Int
/Ext
+0.9
/-1.1
56.2
19
E1 Int
+1.0
/-1.2
62.5
21
E1 Int
+1.1
/-1.3
72.9
25
E1 Int
+1.05
/- 1.45
83.5
29
E1 Int
+1.2
/-1.2
105
36
E1 Int
+ 1.5
/- 1.9
*For further detailed information such as structural detail and help with specifications, please contact our technical team.
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