Riga Form

Riga Form is a durable birch plywood designed for intensive heavy-duty use in the formwork sector with as many as 80 reuses possible. Thanks to its excellent mechanical properties and range of colours, Riga Form can be used in various other industries as well.

Riga Form can be further processed according to customer's specification with: cut-to-size, CNC, drilling, milling, jointing, edge machining, assembling in sets, and scarf jointing.

Major advantages:

• Withstands large mechanical loads – excellent weight-to-strength ratio
• Weather-resistant gluing and water-resistant surface
• Cost efficient and easily workable with long lifespan
• Smooth finish and sealing, resulting in substantial time and cost saving
• Variety of standard sizes, cut-to-size and scarf-jointed panels available
• Surface is resistant to commonly used chemicals and surface impact, easy to clean for repeated uses
• Sustainable product

Overlaying:

Overlaid with resin-impregnated film, which is hot-pressed onto the sheet surface, ensuring a smooth and protected surface. Depending on the application, films impregnated with modified phenolic or melamine resins can be applied. To enhance the product properties, it is possible to use multi-layer film.

Surface properties:

Surface is smooth, glossy and dense, improving panel resistance against mechanical damage and wearing. It resists abrasion, commonly used chemicals and is weather and moisture resistant. The surface can be easily cleaned with water or steam. Depending on the film used, abrasion, crack, UV resistance and other surface properties can be customised. Riga Wood experts will advise the most appropriate overlay depending on the end use.

Both customised logo printing and custom-printed films are available.

Edge Sealing:

The edges are sealed with colour matched moisture resistant paint.

Other colours are available upon request.

Panel sizes:

• 1220 / 1250 mm x 2440 / 2500 / 2745 / 2750 / 3000 / 3050 / 3340 / 3660 mm
• 1500 / 1525 mm x 2440 / 2500 / 2745 / 2750 / 3000 / 3050 / 3340 / 3660 mm
• 1830 / 1850 mm x 3050 / 3340 / 3660 / 3850 mm
• 2150 mm x 3050 / 3340 / 3850 / 4000 mm
• 2290 mm x 4000 mm
• 2440 / 2500 mm x 1220 / 1250 mm

Standard thicknesses:

4, 6.5, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 mm

Other thicknesses available on request.

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.

Formaldehyde emission

Riga Wood birch plywood formaldehyde emission level is significantly below EN 13986 Class E1 and complies with EPA TSCA Title VI and CARB Phase 2.

Sustainability

We strongly believe that wood-based products in industrial use are a great option for carbon storage and a big part of the solution to achieve climate change mitigation. The key principles of sustainability and responsible governance are deeply rooted in our company’s traditions and we aim to further develop our initiatives by actively engaging with stakeholders, material suppliers and clients.