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Plywood Thickness

Plywood Thickness

Thickness is the key specification of PLYWOOD. When you inquire or quote for plywood, you must state what thickness you will buy or sell clearly .  Plywood thickness ranges from 0.4mm~100mm . But the common plywood is 3.2mm~21mm .

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Nominal Thickness and Actual Thickness of Plywood

There two Plywood Thickness : Nominal Thickness and Actual Thickness.

Measuring Plywood Thickness

Nominal Thickness is the thickness by which the is generally called or sold in trade, Actual Thickness means the real thickness of a plywood.

Nominal Thickness and Actual Thickness are different. The difference between Nominal Thickness and Actual Thickness is called thickness tolerance. Thickness tolerance is allowed in all plywood standards, like ISO, US and European plywood standard, JPIC, China plywood standard…

Measuring the Plywood Thickness

You can use a caliper to measure the thickness as showing in above photo. If you are not experienced, you may measure a wrong thickness. In the photo, the caliper reads 17.75mm, which is the actual thickness, the nominal thickness of this plywood is 18mm plywood.

Metric Thickness and Imperial Thickness

In China, we use metric system in sale and production of plywood / film faced plywood / blockboard . During international plywood trade , some customers like to make inquiries in imperial system . When quoting prices, we will change our prices in metric system into prices in imperial system .

We also welcome customers to make inquiries in imperial system . Anyway, customer is god .

Metric thickness shown here are approximations .

 

Imperial Metric
1/8 in. 3.2 mm
1/4 in. 6.5 mm
5/16 in. 8 mm
11/32 in. 8.5 mm
3/8 in. 9.5 mm
7/16 in. 11 mm
15/32 in. 12 mm
1/2 in. 12.5 mm
19/32 in. 15 mm
5/8 in. 16 mm
23/32 in. 18 mm
3/4 in. 19 mm
1-1/8 in. 28.5 mm
1-1/4 in. 32 mm

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10 Responses

  1. ANUP****** 2008/10/23 at 04:15:28

    PLS SEND ME THE PLYWOOD CATALOG & ALL THE THICKNESS SIZES(IN MM) OF THE PLYWOODS AVAILABLE.

  2. ram****** 2009/11/10 at 09:53:02

    I want prices of 18mm thick brand plywood and green plywood

  3. Hun****** 2009/12/06 at 02:38:33

    I find information in your blog very useful because I am a newbie in this field. Thank you for sharing such information.

  4. prashanth 2016/01/11 at 23:17:34

    dear sir:
    Please can u send me the ISO stranded Plywood size,thickness & density chart as i am a student and i need to know about plywood and it may help me in interval also
    thanking
    PRASHANTH SK

  5. Chris****** 2019/04/16 at 13:33:31

    Is it still possible to obtain half inch / 12.5mm thick ply wood please?

  6. Plywood Suppliers 2019/04/16 at 19:43:00

    Sure, we supply plywood thickness range from 1mm ~50mm to Europe:Germany, UK, France .

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