The thickness of the
face veneer, panel core, and glue core was 0.5, 1.6, and 1.6 mm, respectively, in both patterns.
The rectangular Cocktail Table and End Table combine a fancy
face veneer top with turned trumpet legs and a lower shelf, finished in Low Tide or with a Blossom base and Driftwood top.
Lexington also will close its
face veneer operation, resulting in the loss of 18 additional corporate staffers.
The first letter is the
face veneer grade, and the second is for the back veneer.
With an extensive background in hardwood veneer at Hartzell Veneer Products and Arkansas
Face Veneer, Ward was most recently North American Sales Manager at Coldwater Veneer.
However, the large percentage of shear failure when stressed parallel to
face veneer grain hindered an accurate determination of true MOR.
In 1988, Mannington started making engineered hardwood flooring, a five-ply construction with a southern red oak
face veneer. Today, it is still five-ply construction, but the
face veneers now are cherry, maple, hickory, red oak and sometimes white oak and walnut, all northern grown.
In a contemporary styling, Platinum is a case goods group highlighted with fancy
face veneer surfaces.
Plywood bending strength and stiffness parallel to
face veneer grain direction were considerably lower than LVL bending strength and stiffness (Tables 4 and 6).
Veneer with a rough surface can also cause excessive resin use and may result in resin bleeding through the
face veneer. Roughness of
face veneer can be improved to a certain extent by sanding; however, this increases overall production costs (Lebow and Winandy 1998, Taylor et al.
