Plywood Coating
We offer a wide range of coatings for decorative, functional or fire safety requirements
Coatings for both internal & external applications, from clear lacquers to opaque colours
All produced in a factory-controlled environment in accordance with ISO 9001 procedures
Commercial volumes only
Processes
Curtain Coating
For fully finished painted panels, such as site hoarding boards
Vacuum coating line with in-line de-nibber
For fast, accurate coating for high production needs
Painted Plywood
Primer Coats
Offered in white grey or black as standard. Using a water-bourne industrial primer for wood offered in internal and external use systems.
The use of primer generates better adhesion between top coat and substrate whilst hiding some imperfections.
Cost effective compared to two layers of top coat.
Material can be finished on-site. Ideal when needing to apply a range of coating options.
Curtain Coating
Available for a wide range of applications, our curtain coating system offers a uniform coating application for projects where finish and visual application are important. Our standard product offer is a semi-gloss waterborne industrial coating system for internal and external use. We offer over 100 standard colours and can bespoke mix to RAL numbers on larger projects. Popular uses include hoarding panels, high traffic joinery applications, durable coating applications. We can also offer bespoke finishes and sheen levels dependant upon your project requirements.
Roller Applied
Roller application coating is used to offer a high-quality finish on flat panels. This system allows the application of coating that would not be suitable for a curtain coating system. We offer roller applied coatings for a range of uses with a core product range including UV coating and stippled coating. This is used within the anti-slip and flooring market to provide a highly durable finish with the added benefit of reducing health and safety risks. We can offer a wide range of colours and finishes dependant upon your project requirements.
Spray
Spray coating covers a wide range of solutions for customer projects. From small bespoke runs that require a small volume of product but a high-quality finish to large project runs with patterned or uneven surfaces spray coating will cover your project need. Working closely with a wide range of paint manufactures we can offer both water and solvent-based systems to cover your project needs from basic barn black staining to high quality French polishing systems for high end joinery items.
Paint Types
We work closely with key coatings manufactures within the UK and Europe to offer systems to suit all projects. Due to VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds) and environmental impact our preference is to use a waterborne coating systems, but if required we can also offer:
Nitrocellulose paint systems
Mainly used in high quality and quick drying lacquer systems
Polyurethane paint systems
Mainly used for high durability applications such as marine requirements
UV coatings
Used in high quality instant dry applications that require durability
Lacquer
We can coat any type of plywood with clear UV lacquer to matt, satin or gloss sheen levels.
Fully controlled linear spray line. Factory applied coatings offer a high quality finish.
Also available: birch plywood pre-lacquered direct from the plywood mill.
Sanded to 400 grit with three coats of UV cured lacquer applied, resulting in a smooth medium gloss finish (35% sheen)
Fire-Retardant Treatment
& Maintaining Coatings
We can fire treat to Euro Class B s1,d0, using specified, internationally approved products
under ISO 9001 specification
Fire Retardancy Maintaining Lacquer System
Contra-Burn Lacquer in ultra matt, satin or gloss. This maintains the EN13501-1 s1, d0 fire rated standard that is required in most new projects.
Contra-Burn treated plywood behaves like a sponge, so the structure is receptive to the lacquer, where the cell fibres absorb the lacquer, making it penetrate deeper, providing a tough, durable seal, that protects the plywood from the inside out.
Full details of fire retardant material can be found on these links:
Factory Applied Spray Finishings
From bespoke projects to regular repeat work, we can offer:
- Primers – water based and solvent based
- Polyurethane coatings
- Acrylics
- Enamel coatings
- Oil based systems
- Stain coats
- Pre-weathering coatings
- Intumescent coatings
- Maintaining coatings
Machine Applied
Using our state-of-the-art coating machines
we offer a high quality and consistent finish:
- Primer coats
- Stains
- Intumescent
- Pre weathering coatings
- Film building coatings
- Maintaining coatings
Additional Processes
- Sanding & de-nibbing
- Texturing machining – to achieve a 3D effect, i.e. a distressed look
- Charring – to enhance the grain
- Wire brushing
- Shotblasting
- Sandblasting (bead blasting / abrasive blasting)
