Summary
Multipurpose high quality birch plywood for various applications where an excellent strength to weight ratio is needed.
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Application
Suitable for various applications where an excellent strength to weight ratio is needed.
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Description
WISA-Birch is a light-coloured and strong plywood panel for multiple end-uses, including transport, construction, and furniture. The panel is made of birch veneers bonded with weather-resistant glue. The product has a light, smooth and even surface that offers an optimal base for different overlaying methods. Due to its excellent strength, uncoated WISA birch plywood is widely used in the demanding vehicle, shipbuilding, construction and furniture industries.
Features and benefits:
- Light, smooth and hard surface.
- High quality strength and weight ratio.
- Possibility to customize according to your needs.
- Wide size and thickness range available with strict tolerances.
- All birch veneer, structural grade plywood to which the section properties, grade stresses and moduli listed in BS 5268-2 apply; see also 'Handbook of Finnish plywood' on manufacturer's website for details.
- Plies are bonded using a phenolic resin, cross-bonded, weather resistant glue to EN 314-2, Class 3 'Exterior'.
- As wood is a living material, every panel is unique. Thus a photograph or a sample piece cannot represent all variations in colour, shade, graining, knots.
- Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) certified.
- Manufactured only in Finland and Estonia.
- Shapes, profiles and drillings can be machined to specifier's drawings.
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Product certifications
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Digital objects
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Finish
Sanded
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Material
Plywood
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Shape
Rectangle
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Length
1000 mm, 1220 mm, 1250 mm, 1500 mm, 1525 mm, Bespoke
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Width
2000 mm, 2440 mm, 2500 mm, 3000 mm, 3050 mm, 3660 mm, Bespoke
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Height
6.5 mm, 9 mm, 12 mm, 15 mm, 18 mm, 21 mm, 24 mm, 27 mm, 30 mm, 35 mm, 40 mm, 50 mm
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Specification
Classification data
Material
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Type
Birch plywood.
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Material grade
Finnish birch plywood II/III., Finnish birch plywood III/III., Finnish birch plywood III/IV.
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Face veneer
Birch., Betula.
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Face grain direction
Perpendicular to long edges of boards.
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Service class
To BS EN 636, service class 2.
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Use class
To BS EN 335, use class 1., To BS EN 335, use class 2.
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Bonding quality
To BS EN 314-2, Class 3.
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VOC emissions
E1 low formaldehyde emission class.
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Sheet size
1000 x 2000 mm., 1000 x 2500 mm., 1000 x 3000 mm., 1220 x 2440 mm., 1220 x 2500 mm., 1250 x 2440 mm., 1250 x 2500 mm, 1500 x 2500 mm., 1500 x 3000 mm., 1500 x 3050 mm., 1500 x 3660 mm., 1525 x 2500 mm., 1525 x 3000 mm., 1525 x 3050 mm., 1525 x 3660 mm.
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Nominal thickness
12 mm.
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Number of plies
9.
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Edges
Square., Tongued and grooved two long edges., Tongued and grooved four edges.
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Finish as delivered
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Surface finish
Unsanded., Sanded along the grain.
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Additional properties
Face veneer appearance class to BS EN 635
Class II., Class III.
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Reverse veneer appearance class to EN 635
Class IV.
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Panel weight
8.2 kg/m².
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Modulus of elasticity
12 735 N/mm².
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BendingStrength
50.9 N/mm².
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Sustainability data
Contains Red List materials
No
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Country of material origin
Finland
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Country of product manufacture
Finland
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Material
Plywood
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Carbon dioxide equivalent
Normalized unit
(kg CO₂ eq/kg) A1–A3 ('Production stage') :
-856
A1–A3 ('Production stage') :
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A1–A3 ('Production stage') :
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Declared unit
Certified
A1–A3 ('Production stage') :
-856
Certified
A1–A3 ('Production stage') :
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Certified
A1–A3 ('Production stage') :
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Recyclability
Re-use or Biomass
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Recycled content
0 %
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