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Greenply Industries: Plywood Manufacturing Guide

Greenply Industries Limited is India's largest interior infrastructure company manufacturing plywood, laminates, and other wood products. It has a detailed manufacturing process involving selecting and debarking logs, peeling veneers, drying, composing layers, pressing, cutting, sanding and surface treatments to produce high quality wood boards and ensure durability, uniform thickness, strength and a smooth surface.

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Greenply Industries: Plywood Manufacturing Guide

Greenply Industries Limited is India's largest interior infrastructure company manufacturing plywood, laminates, and other wood products. It has a detailed manufacturing process involving selecting and debarking logs, peeling veneers, drying, composing layers, pressing, cutting, sanding and surface treatments to produce high quality wood boards and ensure durability, uniform thickness, strength and a smooth surface.

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INTRODUCTION

• Greenply Industries Limited (GIL) is India's largest interior infrastructure company.


• The company was established as "Mittal Laminates Private Limited" on 28 November 1990.
• It has a net consolidated turnover of ₨ 2044 crores for the financial year 2012–2013.
• Greenply manufacturers various interior infrastructure products such as plywood, block
board, decorative laminates, decorative veneers, medium density
fiberboards (MDF), laminate flooring and restroom cubicles.
• It has 45 branches all across india and presence in more than 300 cities with more than
13,000 distributors, dealers, sub-dealers and retailers.
UNIFORM THICKNESS SMOOTH SURFACE

SUPERIOR QUALITY MAX PRECISION

DURABILITY GREATER STRENGTH


MANUFACTURING
PROCESS
SELECTION OF WOODEN LOGS

• Only matured trees are used.


• The age of trees should be 7-8 yrs.

• Selecting only those trees whose


moisture content level is 60-90%.
• Done to ensure smoothness while
running into machines.

• Cutting of huge quality log into smaller


pieces.
DEBARKING
• Drum debarking is one of the methods used in the
timber industry to separate bark from wood. The
tumbling action produced by logs placed inside a
rotating drum can abrade the logs against other logs
and against the drum surface, dislodging bark from
the wood.

• Uniformly thick and smooth veneers peeled of the


wooden log using spindleless peeling machine.
CUTTING & TENDERIZING
• Veneers are cut into 8 feet by 2 feet
panels and 4 feet by 2 feet cores.

• TENDERIZING
- It helps in making thee veneer more
flexible and stress-free
DRYING & CONDITIONING
• DRYING
- To ensure uniform
drying the tenderized
veneers are passed
through a dryer which
is at a controlled
temperature.

• CONDITIONING
- The veneers after drying are conditioned
for 24 hours to retain 6-8% of moisture.
- This is mainly done to make the veneer
flexible and to avoid it from cracking due
to dryness.
COMPOSING & GLUE SPREADING
• COMPOSING
- All layers of veneer are composed to
8’x4’ in size with the help of core
composer machine, avoiding
overlapping and core gap problems

• GLUE SPREADING
- The veneer sheets are
then passed through
a 8 feet glue spreading
machine
- The resin glue used here
will vary according to the
type of board.
COLD PRESSING

• COLD PRESSING
- To ensure greater penetration
of resin for stronger bond.
- The veneers are pre pressed
under fixed pressure for a
certain period of time.
- The face veneers are not over
laid in this step.
HOT PRESSING
• HOT PRESSING
- The pre pressed plywood are then
taken to hot press section for curing
under controlled pressure and temp.
- The plywood boards are pressed for a
certain duration of time according to
the type of the board.
ROUGH CUTTING
• ROUGH CUTTING
- The boards are cut to perfection to give
them precise rectangular shape.

- The face boards are cut to size of 8’x4’


rectangles.
- The core boards are cut to size of 8’x2’
or 8’x3’. This is done to avoid warping.
CALIBERATING

- The plywood boards are


passed through
calibrating machine to
achieve uniform and
smooth finish and then
they are let to conditi-
oning.
THE 4 PRESS TECHNOLOGY

HOT PRESS

• BENEFITS
- Durability
- Uniform thickness
- Smooth surface
- Superior quality
- Max precision
- Greater strength.
COLD PRESS
SANDING
&
SURFACE
TREATMENT
- The plywood boards are sent
through the sanding machine
to check if there any steam
pockets.
- The plywood board are made
borer and termite proof by
making them pass through
preservative surface
treatment.
- CCB – Copper Chromium
Borox is used as chemical in
surface treatment.
ACHIVEMENTS

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