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1 January 2011: Vicwood Pre-finished Veneer is Vicwood Group's latest product to be launched into the market for decorative architectural and interior design projects. Manufactured solely by Vicwood from Vicwood engineered veneers, Vicwood Pre-finished Veneer provides a real wood look to custom furniture, cabinetry, doors or wall panels, among other decorative products. Pre-finished with a gloss and smooth or sand-blasted texture, its phenolic backing allows for easy application onto plywood, MDF, particle board or other surfaces. It is available now from Vicwood's manufacturing facilities in Suzhou, China in 4-foot (1220mm) x 8-foot (2440mm) sheets. Vicwood owns a twenty-year patent to manufacture this product in China, details of which can be furnished upon request. Contact us to distribute this product in your country.

5 November 2010: Vicwood Group is now producing Vicwood Low Carbon Engineered Flooring, a three-layer structure composed of natural wood and Vicwood Mineral Board. Less wood and less energy are consumed in its production, making it an environmentally conscious product. Providing the advantages of low formaldehyde emission, fire-retardance, moisture resistance, termite resistance, weather resistance, low heat conductivity and cost-savings, it is easy to install. The dimensions currently offered are 15 mm / 18 mm x 125 mm x 910 mm but custom-made sizes are also negotiable. It is suitable for use in homes, hotels and public places. It can also be used in premises with heated flooring systems and high humidity. Vicwood Low Carbon Engineered Flooring can be installed in the same way as regular engineered flooring. For further details, visit our flooring page or contact us.

12 May 2010: Vicwood Group is pleased to announce that our Eco Energy Board with mineral board face has recently been tested for fire-resistance in the Philippines recently. It took 2 hours to burn through the mineral board using a fire gun at a very high temperature. This result was considered to be very satisfactory.

24 March 2010: Vicwood Group was today issued a CARB report for its Hardwood Plywood Veneer Core 3 mm - 20 mm. It was certified as meeting section 93120.3(b) title 17 under the California Code of Regulation. Our product passed the phase 2 formaldehyde emission level as specified in CARB ATCM section 93120.2 (a). The result we obtained was 0.02 when tested by ASTM D6007-02, UV-Vis method. Phase 2 maximum permissible limit is 0.05 so our product is actually better than the permitted standard!

3 December 2009: Vicwood Mineral Board is a panel composed of agricultural by-products and mineral compounds. Not only decorative and functional but also cost efficient, it is an environmentally friendly and health-conscious product because it is free of toxic substances such as benzine, asbestos, formaldehyde, etc. It provides high dimensional stability, structural strength and is resistant against fire, impact, termites, moisture, acid, alkaline, mold and mildew. For further details, visit our website page or contact us.

2 December 2009: Vicwood is now offering doors manufactured with its own Eco Energy Panel Core. Light weight but impact-resistant and providing acoustic, moisture and thermal insulation all at the same time, Eco Energy Panel-core Vicwood Doors are provided with lock boards and hinge boards. The edges are sealed with solid wood. For more information, pricing and samples, visit our product page or e-mail us.

11 September 2009: Vicwood is happy to announce that it is now producing its Flooring with a Click-locking System. Manufactured in dimensions of 10.5mm x 125mm x 1220mm with a 0.6mm thick top veneer, this is a glueless flooring with an HDF core and veneer face and back. We also produce plywood-based flooring with veneer face (our multi-layer Engineered Flooring), lumber core flooring with veneer face (a 3-layer parquet with Chinese Cedar core 14(3.0)/15(4.0)mm x 125/150/189mm x 1,220mm/1860mm) and laminated flooring 8.3mm x 195mm x 1215mm; 12.3mm x 166/195mm; and 12.3mm x 90mm x 1215mm with square edge or V-Groove and anti-abrasive grades AC2, AC3 and AC4. For more information, pricing and samples, visit our flooring page or e-mail us.

11 July 2009: Vicwood is now offering Vicwood melamine-face plywood, ideal for cabinet doors, wardrobe doors and sliding doors. Lightweight and offered in a choice of gloss or matt finish and plain white or Cherry, Oak and Maple wood grain, our pre-finished melamine-face plywood already includes surface sanding and coating, saving you labour and material costs. Dimensions are 17mm and 18mm thick x 4 foot (1250mm) wide x 8 foot (2500mm) long. To request pricing and/or samples, please e-mail us or visit our webpage for more information.

25 May 2009: Vicwood announces the launch of its Thin MDF in a choice of two applications: 1) with paper laminate faces and 2) prefinished with Vicwood EV (engineered veneer) faces for immediate use. Dimensions are 2.5mm thick x 4 foot (1250mm) wide x 8 foot (2500mm) long. Please contact us for more details, samples and pricing.

15 March 2009: Vicwood Finger-jointed Lumber, where short pieces of wood in random lengths are joined end to end in an interlocking finger-like structure, represents a responsible use of natural resources. Scrap material which would ordinarily have been thrown away or burned for fuel is now utilized in a more environmentally friendly way so as to make use of the entire tree. Popular in door cores, table tops and stair treads, Vicwood Lumber Boards, composed by splicing together strips of finger-jointed lumber, perform identically to panels of the same dimensions constructed from a single piece of solid wood but consume less timber resources. More information on these two products can be found on our Finger-joint page.

20 February 2009: Vicwood has finally launched its long-awaited Eco-Energy Panel, which is a sandwich-structured panel comprised of an XPS (Extruded Polystyrene Foam) core and plywood face and back, all bonded together with adhesive. Its light weight, moisture resistance, acoustic and thermal insulation and resistance to compression establish the product as the third generation in composite boards. The product is suitable for use in doors, wall panels, ceiling panels, roofing, work tops, partitions and cabinets, making it an ideal substitute for block board, finger-jointed lumber and multi-layer panels. For more information please see our Vicwood Eco Energy Panel page.

29 January 2009: Vicwood is now introducing Stair treads in natural wood species such as Red Oak, Sapele, White Oak, Bosse, Padouk, etc. to its customers. For more information, please see our stair tread page.

15 January 2009: Vicwood Wood Venetian Blinds are finally available and ready for shipment to our customers. We offer four series of natural and engineered wood slats, valances and bottom rails for Venetian blinds. Moreover, for importers, distributors and wholesalers, we are now able to offer pre-finished Venetian blinds. For more information, please see our Vicwood venetian blinds and components page.

12 December 2008: Vicwood announces the launch of its newest product, flush and moulded Door Skins. Made from both natural veneer and our own engineered veneer in a variety of long-grain and cross-grain styles as well as pre-assembled designs with rails and styles, the door skins can be custom-made for large projects, are offered in a variety of door sizes, and can be easily laminated onto MDF, flakeboard, plywood or other wood surfaces. Many choices exist among our spliced door skin veneer (for flat doors) and our pre-finished veneer (with phenolic backing and an anti-scratch surface). For more information, please see our door skin page.

 

10 November 2006 - Dubai, U.A.E.: Richard Chong, Senior Manager of Hong Kong-based Vicwood Group is keen to emphasise the quality as well as the versatility of his engineered wood veneers and timber. “There can be a perception that products from China are cheaply made. This is not true, as the neighbouring factories in Suzhou for Sony and Canon can prove.”

Although Vicwood now has over 7,000 employees at the 1.7km2 factory in China, the family company's 45-year history is international, based in North America, the Philippines and Hong Kong. The company produces recomposed wood veneers and timber. While the variety of design and colour will allow designers flexibility, the company also aims to protect the environment.

Chong said: “We are a company with a green philosophy. We take wood that is plentiful and grown in plantations and under SGS certification, and use it to create the effect of the rare hardwoods, whose numbers are rapidly reducing. Designers can then use these wood effects in their designs, but without using the scarce resources.”

Vicwood takes woods, such as African white wood, decomposes it, dyes and presses it, to produce a range of veneers that are 97% wood. Chong said: “We currently have over 400 different designs including teak, cherry, rosewood, zebrawood, ebony and walnut.”

Another advantage of the recomposed wood is the consistency of colour. As Chong explained: “With a wood such as walnut, sometimes only 40% of a shipment can be used, as the colour varies so widely. We can offer complete consistency in all the shipment.”

1 January 2006: A new product offering uniform, defect-free veneers and lumber in a wide choice of patterns, colours and species is now available from Vicwood Industry (Suzhou) Co. Ltd., the highly reputed, large timber products manufacturer in China.

Manufacturing process

Reconstituted Veneer is manufactured using rotary peeled veneers of light coloured timber species, which are dyed, glued to E1 emissions standards, aligned in a mould, pressed and cured to form a block. The result is an engineered hardwood flitch that is uniform, free of defects and available in a huge range of patterns, from quarter-sawn White Oak to Bird's eye Maple.

There are three or four companies in Europe who continue to produce a certain volume of reconstituted (composite) flitches for slicing into veneer, but Vicwood is by far the world's largest manufacturer and has invested heavily in research and development. In addition to slicing veneer-grade blocks for veneers, the Group also produces sawing-grade blocks for sawing into lumber, offering the obvious advantages of perfectly matched veneer and lumber.

Applications

Sliced Reconstituted Veneer is ideal for the mass production of doors, flooring and furniture where the same pattern and colour can be replicated and where waste can be minimized. Sawing-grade Reconstituted Lumber has the advantage that it can be produced in large specifications (any thickness and any width up to 24 inches (640mm)), which opens up a wide range of possible uses. Many manufacturers are also ripping the lumber down to small sizes to produce decorative mouldings and door jambs.

Endless possibilities

Given the detailed and lengthy manufacturing process, Reconstituted Lumber is obviously not a cheap product when compared to 2inch x 6inch (50mm x 150mm) and wider natural Sapele or Beech. However, when you consider species of high value or those limited in volume, such as Teak, Wenge, Cherry or Walnut, and when you take into account the waste factor when processing solid wood, the cost of Reconstituted Lumber will be similar or even lower.

Furthermore, the product offers tremendous versatility. What about Bird's-eye Maple, Ebony, Zebrawood or Burls? The availability of Reconstituted wood products in these patterns offers significant savings and new opportunities. And if you want blue Oak, it can be achieved by altering the manufacturing process.

Plywood and flooring

In addition to its cutting-edge Reconstituted Lumber technology, Vicwood is also one of China's largest plywood manufacturers, with well established worldwide markets for ordinary and fancy plywood, blockboard, doorskins, rotary constructional veneers, decorative natural and engineered veneered boards and mouldings.

The Group has also developed an exciting range of prefinished engineered flooring products in both solid and overlay reconstituted as well as natural species.

Vicwood is one of the world's most innovative timber producers, with a long history of quality and reliability. For more information on how you can import and distribute engineered veneer and flooring, African solid flooring and fancy plywood from Vicwood Group's mills in China, contact us.