How wood veneer is made...

How wood veneer is made...

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Education

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• veneer
• wood
• sheets
• how
• made

[CengalLut]

I find this very informative, but the narration is rather... unprofessional. Such boisterous phrases like "done only by the finest technician" and "a source of pride" and various other meaningless description are misleading. We engineers have concepts like error margin and compromises and trade-offs. Nothing is "perfect" or "ideal", but rather everything have unique properties which may or may not be desirable depending on application.

[thesnare100]

Wouldn't you have to glue each piece of veneer to the one below it, to make plywood? It doesn't show this in the glue machine step

[richay1]

Why did I watch this :S

[giliam74]

thanks for uploading. I work with plywood and veneers professionally, but i never actually saw this clear how they are made.

[ManufacturingET]

Thanks for uploading!!

[CustomCarpentryUK]

Hi @miiksu thank you for letting me know, I find it so interesting to know how things work, I love factories and anything where things are made from small to large. It is a shame you can't film and post on YouTube since you are right there. How long have you been there? What do you do? I will look for Raute thank you. 12 phases, interesting, would love to know more.

[miiksu]

I work in Finland and cameras arent allowed inside the factory where i work. Thats why i was looking for videos on youtube, cause i needed a video of the peeling process for my presentation in school. If you want to know more about the plywood manufacturing process, i suggest you look on google for: Raute. Its a finnish company that makes machines for veneer and plywood factories. I can tell you here that plywood manufacturing has ~12 different phases before we have finished product.

[CustomCarpentryUK]

Hello @miiksu, don't worry, you where right to post, I am delighted to be speaking to you, it is great to talk to someone who is there in the factory doing it! Please tell me more, I would love it if you posted a video of the process? What country do you work in? If you want we can take this conversation elsewhere if you prefer, facebook, or email.

[miiksu]

@CustomCarpentryUK I have to admit that i was wrong.I confused veneer and plywood. What i meant was that, 1m^3 of plywood needs ~4m^3 of logs. Where i work , we use rotary lathe too but the center of the wood is chipped and the wood is hardwood(birch), not sure what is been used here, but this method seems more efficent. We make plywood for heavy use, such as bus floors and trailers. So i actually shouldnt have commented on this video :P

[CustomCarpentryUK]

Hello @miiksu, I am delighted that you have told me that because that is not what I can see from the videos, the cut the log in 4 then shave it. Do they not shave it all the way into the center? Is this the same for plywood as veneer? Can you tell me where I can find out more? Thank you!