In recent months, the prices of hardwood veneers in China local market have increased, which led to 2~6% increase in the prices of hardwood throughout plywood or hardwood film faced plywood of various thickness.

It could have been worse . Sometimes, it was difficult to buy hardwood core veneers for plywood production in some areas.
Now the situation is a little better but the prices of hardwood core veneers have not decreased .

I think this’s a piece of good news for hardwood exporters whose target market is China .

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Bamboo plywood is made of bamboo woven-mats, bamboo curtains, bamboo strips or a few of wooden veneers, which are glued and then pressed under high temperature and high pressure . The production process of bamboo plywood are similar but different to the production process of common plywood made of wood .

Bamboo is a kind of very hard material, so bamboo plywood is of higher strength than common plywood . Bamboo plywoods are widely used as shuttering plywood, trucks & cars floors, packing materials .

In China, construction companies use two kinds of shuttering plywood, one is poplar shuttering plywood , the other is bamboo shuttering plywood . Bamboo shuttering plywood is expensive . So bamboo plywood is usually used for big construction projects . Bamboo shuttering plywood can be used for more times than poplar plywood .

Bamboo shuttering plywood can be used instead of hardwood film faced plywood and birch film faced plywood . 

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One of my blog visitors told me that he wanted to know the Number of Plies of plywood of difference thickness . This is a common question. Hereby, I list the Number of Layers for plywood of each thickness .

The laws of No. of Plies:
1. If the thickness of plywood increase 3mm, the No. of Plies will increase 2 plies;

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