What is Laminate Wood?

I. Laminate wood, also known as plywood (plywood).

Unlike solid wood (Solid wood - whose thickness is made up of a single sheet of wood), Laminate wood is a type of wood whose thickness is assembled from many thin sheets of wood of the same size stacked on top of each other. Thin wooden panels are bonded together with specialized, highly durable glue.

Laminate wood greatly limits warping and termites compared to solid wood. Many types have good moisture resistance, water resistance, and very high durability and strength.

The basic structure of a Laminate wood panel includes 4 main parts:

Paint layer: Glossy, matte or colored paint helps protect and increase aesthetics.

Surface layer (veneer): Natural wood layer.

Bottom layer (plywood): Consists of 1 or more thin slices of natural wood.

Glue layer: Helps bind wood slices together.

Depending on the standards and quality of the output product, the manufacturer will use different types of natural wood and bonding glue for production.

II. History of the birth of the Laminate wood industry.

To have a modern, friendly, and easy-to-use structure and shape today, Laminate wood has had to go through many stages. The development of the Laminate wood industry benefited from the invention and application of machinery.

Around 3500 BC, archaeologists found the first traces of plywood in the tomb of the Egyptian Pharaoh.

More than 1500 years ago, humans used thin layers of wood as construction materials. Later, the Greeks and Romans used this technique to produce wooden furniture and other decorative objects.

About 1000 years ago, the Chinese also knew how to thin wood and glue them together.

In the 1600s, the art of decorating furniture by gluing thin panels of wood over the base material became known as veneering, and the thin panels themselves were called veneer.

Until the late 1700s, veneer panels were cut entirely by hand.

In 1797, Englishman Samuel Bentham created a machine to produce veneer and applied for a patent. In this application he described the concept of gluing multiple layers of veneer with glue to form a thicker board, these were the first descriptions of what we know as Laminate wood.

About 50 years later, Immanuel Nobel, father of famous scientist Alfred Nobel, realized that bonding thin layers of natural wood together would create a material with extremely good durability.

As the demand for Laminate wood increased, some companies began to produce Laminate wood, not only for home interiors but also used as interiors in trains, buses and airplanes...

In the 1890s, the quality of Laminate wood was greatly improved, the market gradually opened up, since then the Laminate wood production industry developed rapidly, many Laminate wood factories were born.

Over the following decades, improved adhesives and new manufacturing methods allowed laminate to be used for a variety of applications.

III. Application of Laminate wood.

Today, Laminate wood is present in all areas of life. The main uses of this type of wood are making furniture, musical instruments, manufacturing aircraft, ships, trains, cars, construction and packaging boxes.

Laminate wood today has an advanced production process, pressed under high pressure and heat, so it is of very high quality and ensures safety during use.

Using Laminate wood to replace solid wood is becoming a modern trend, not only meeting the needs of convenience, high aesthetics, and cost savings, but also an effective way to protect resources. wood.