Veneer Backing Boards

We are proud to offer the following raw material for use as engineered flooring wear layers/lamellas:

North American Species Veneer Backer Boards – these are the two boards, which remain from each veneer quality log that is sliced for veneer.  (As these are byproducts from the veneer slicing operations they are considered recycled post industrial/pre-consumer and qualify as such)

Veneer quality logs are the biggest, clearest and best logs that the forest yields and are purchased by veneer mills for many times the price standard saw logs used for lumber production are sold for.

Each log yields two backer boards taken from the center of the log and contain the center of the logs heart wood, (which is waste), and then the “crème de la crème” straight grained wood on either side of the heart.  Hence, these backer boards yield only straight grained wood of the finest quality – it runs typically 90% = rift/quartered.

Each container load produces between 900 & 1200 M2 of A/B grade lamellas/flooring wear layers.  Yield varies slightly dependent on your sizes and grading.

The backer boards are:

1)       typically 8’-6” – 13’ long (2.5M to 3.9M long)

2)       and for thickness either:

      a.       Thins – are typically 6mm – 9mm thick (yielding one wear layer/lamella) or

      b.       Mediums - are typically 10mm – 14mm thick (yielding two wear layers/lamellas) or

      c.       Thicks – are typically 18mm + (yielding three wear layers/lamellas)

3)       air dried

At the present time we have 40 foot container volumes, available to you in the following species:

North American Walnut

North American White Oak

North American Cherry

North American Red Oak

North American Maple

North American Hickory