Riga Decor - Birch plywood

Riga Decor is a birch throughout plywood veneered with various noble wood surfaces for a decorative appearance. Designed for interior applications - decorative walls and ceiling lining, furniture.

Features and benefits:

• Decorative appearance with a wide range of high-quality, noble wood surfaces.
• Durable, smooth and ready to use surface.
• Sound properties can be significantly improved using perforated and grooved panels.
• Low volatile organic compounds (VOC), including formaldehyde emissions.
• Very good screw holding properties, easily workable.
• Sustainable product with long life span.

Further processing:

Riga Decor can be further processed according to customer's specification with:

• Cut-to-size;
• CNC, drilling;
• Milling;
• Jointing;
• Edge machining;
• Assembling in sets;
• Sanded;
• Lacquered.

For applications where insulation and acoustic performance are required, perforated and grooved acoustic panels are possible. More information available in the Acoustic panel leaflet.

Veneering:

Veneering is usually done with 0.55 mm thick unsanded rotary cut veneers (radial and tangent end type), as well as peeled veneers. Wide range of face and back veneers available: birch, beech, European ash, European oak and pine. Other species and customised thicknesses available on request. Veneer quality is selected according to the customer's requirements.

Gluing classes:

Riga Wood birch plywood is glued with weather and boil-proof phenol formaldehyde or lignin phenol formaldehyde resin adhesive according to EN 314/Class 3 Exterior. Bonding with moisture resistant low emission melamine-ureaformaldehyde resin according to EN 314 / Class 1 and BS 1203 / H1 possible. The decorative veneer is bonded with a combination of melamineurea-formaldehyde (MUF) adhesive and hardener intended for enduses where water and weather resistance is required.

Splicing techniques:

Both sliced and peeled veneers of tangential/radial section may be used applying different jointing techniques. Standard jointing book match + 180°, custom layups available upon request.