CDX Plywood Factory

CDX Plywood Factory

  The CDX plywood available from factories in the market today hardly resembles the CDX plywood of 20 years ago. CDX Plywood Factories and  manufacturers around the globe use Tropical Hardwood logs from a wide range of sources including Africa, the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, and South America. Most of these tropical hardwood sources are not being managed for sustainable development. The available pool of tropical hardwood logs to make CDX plywood continues to get smaller and smaller. CDX plywood varies in appearance from shipment to shipment.

CDX Plywood Manufacture 

  Plywood is made with wood panels from thin sheets of CDX plywood veneer. It is one of the most widely used wood products.  It is flexible, inexpensive, workable, and re-usable, and usually can be manufactured locally. Plywood is used instead of plain wood because of plywood's resistance to cracking, shrinkage, splitting, and twisting/warping, and because of its generally high strength.

  Layers of thin woods, which are called Vaneers,are glued together, with adjacent plies having their wood grain at right angles to each other, to form a composite material. This alternation of the grain is called cross-graining and has several important benefits: Plywood Vaneers reduce the tendency of wood to split when nailed at the edges, this is a benefit for many do it yourself jobs, especially when you consider that most "do-it-yourselfers" are novices in jobs for the first time.

  Another benefit of Plywood Vaneers is that they reduce expansion and shrinkage, providing improved dimensional stability; and it makes the strength of the panel consistent across both directions.

There is usually an odd number of plies, so that the sheet is balanced—this reduces warping. Because plywood is bonded with grains running against one another and with an odd number of composite parts, it is very hard to bend it perpendicular to the grain direction.


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