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BACKSTORY: North American Plywood Corporation is a specialty plywood importer/wholesaler founded in 1948. We offer products that are of the highest quality and manufactured by the world’s best plywood factories around the world. Panels with special coatings, finishes, cores and sizes are our specialty. We can supply panels up to 7’x20′ with a thickness up to 4”. Custom panel sizing and CNC machining is all done in house with new state of the art equipment. One of the largest 60” wide UV finishing lines is available for 1 and 2 sided UV finishes on panels up to 5’x12′. Also PUR laminating line lets us offer an almost limitless variety of laminated panels. (SOURCE: North American Plywood Corporation)

BACKSTORY: Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or “plies”, of wood veneer that have been stacked and glued together. It is an engineered wood from the family of manufactured boards, which include plywood, medium-density fibreboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB), and particle board (or chipboard).

All plywoods bind resin and wood fibre sheets (cellulose cells are long, strong and thin) to form a composite material. The sheets of wood are stacked such that each layer has its grain set typically (see below) perpendicular to its adjacent layers. This alternation of the grain is called cross-graining and has several important benefits: it reduces the tendency of wood to split when nailed at the edges; it reduces thickness swelling and shrinkage, providing improved dimensional stability; and it makes the strength of the panel consistent across all directions. There is usually an odd number of plies, so that the sheet is balanced (i.e. the surface layers have their grains set parallel to one another) – this reduces warping. Because plywood is bonded with grains running against one another and with an odd number of composite parts, it has high stiffness perpendicular to the grain direction of the surface ply.

Smaller, thinner, and lower-quality plywoods may only have their plies (layers) arranged at right angles to each other. Some better-quality plywood products by design have five plies in steps of 45 degrees (0, 45, 90, 135, and 180 degrees), giving strength in multiple axes.

The word ply derives from the French verb plier,^[1] “to fold”, from the Latin verb plico, from the ancient Greek verb πλέκω.^[2] (SOURCE: Wikipedia)