Engineered Veneer (EV) combines non-tropical raw materials with state of the art manufacturing technologies, to produce high quality veneers for the surfaces of hardwood plywood products, which would previously have used potentially higher risk (in relation to EUTR) tropical veneers. EV was initially developed for the decorative veneered plywood market, but the technology has now been successfully applied to the production of commercial veneers for the high volume plywood market.