Lightweight Hoop Pine Plywood with Excellent Working Properties, Stability and Aesthetics

by Matilda Veneer Manager

Hoop pine is a lightweight timber found throughout Queensland and New South Wales’ and is extensively used in flooring, furniture, bathroom cabinetry, shelving, cupboards, and also for structural and construction projects. The plywood is whitish or light-coloured, has a straight to interlocked grain with visible growth rings that are usually indistinct. It displays a medium uniform texture and can be easily stained, polished, and painted. The versatile lightweight plywood works well with fittings and fastenings.

Hoop pine wood yields lightwood plywood and veneer with uniform density, excellent working properties and stability. Pruning hoop pine butt log provides long and clear timber lengths of high value. It is resistant to wear, making hoop pine plywood ideal for use in areas of high foot traffic, such as floorings and decks. The general-purpose lightweight plywood made of softwood is best suited for use in general house framing and mouldings. The rotary-cut softwood is extremely popular in architectural linings, particularly large ceiling areas.

Plywood with good nail holding capabilities

Clear sections of hoop pine plywood are easy to work with both hand and machine tools. It is easier to cut, saw, drill and screw than many other lightwood plywoods. Hoop pine plywood provides an aesthetic appeal to your projects, so you are not required to change the natural look of this lightweight plywood, and it also has excellent nail holding capabilities. Hoop pine plywood can also be planer-gauged for more accurate marking and joining.

Treating hoop pine plywood

The degree of preservative treatment used for hoop pine plywood and the extent to which the lightweight timber is exposed to the elements and hazardous environment will determine how long the plywood would remain usable to you. Tenalising is a safe, organic-based treatment for hoop pine plywood, and is suitable for use in woodwork projects. 

Lightweight plywood with uniform strength throughout

Plywood is a composite material which is formed by binding together the resin and wood fibre sheets. It is commonly used for making furniture items. While solid wood is tough, plywood happens to be stronger without any of the disadvantages of solid wood. Its strength is evenly distributed due to the cross-grained structure. With uniform strength throughout the body and along the grain, lightweight plywood can hold better than solid wood. When coupled with strong veneers and adhesives, lightweight plywood becomes resistant to pressure exerted during manufacturing.

How to choose lightweight plywood?

While choosing lightweight plywood, go for large sheets that measure at least 1800 mm in length and 1200 mm in width. This way, you will be able to accomplish a lot with one sheet of plywood. In the case that you can’t find the perfect sheet for your project, lightweight plywood can be easily cut to spec for your project.

Matilda Veneer has the best-quality lightweight plywood for use in various interior, structural, exterior and marine applications. Being a wood-based material, lightweight plywood has the ability to accommodate the occasional short-term overload, up to twice the design load. This property of plywood makes it appropriate for use in construction flooring or as concrete formwork. Its laminated structure helps in distributing loads from impact over a large area on the opposite face, which effectively reduces the tensile stress.

What makes plywood a versatile material?

The cross-laminated construction of plywood ensures that plywood sheets remain relatively stable under the changes in temperature and moisture. This property of plywood is especially important in flooring and formwork construction where exposure to moisture is very likely. The high strength and stiffness to weight ratio allows the woodworkers to use light plywood in structural applications, such as flooring, webbed beams and shearwalls. The panel shear of plywood is nearly double that of solid wood due to its cross-laminated structure which makes it a sought after material for use in bracing panels, gussets for portal frames, and webs for fabricated beams.

Capturing the natural warmth of plywood for your projects

Matilda Veneer provides the best quality hoop pine plywood and other varieties of lightweight plywood, perfectly finished to provide aesthetics and durability to your projects. Hoop pine plywood and lightweight plywood available at Matilda Veneer beautifully captures the natural warmth of this highly sought after lightweight plywood species which is perfect for timber feature walls and ceilings. Matilda Veneer provides the best quality hoop pine plywood and lightweight plywood varieties that resist rot and decay. As such, the lightweight plywood is suitable for outdoor and structural projects, such as pergolas and retaining walls, fencing, playground equipment, and landscaping.

Matilda Veneer has an extensive collection of hoop pine plywood and lightweight plywood species which are suitable for use in all types of architectural applications including panelling, walls, ceiling, cabinetry, and curved forms. Hoop pine plywood available at Matilda Veneer comes from 100% plantation-grown forests, where the tree stems are pruned to a certain height during the first decade of growth in order to maximise the amount of high-quality, clear wood in the butt logs.

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