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Metsä Wood Form XL is a larger size birch plywood panel with smooth phenolic overlay. Form XL is a tough-surfaced, durable shuttering panel for demanding formwork appli-cations. The durable overlays and large panel sizes ensure multiple uses and a high quality concrete finish with fewer joints. XL panels enable larger one piece components. Applications Concrete formwork Metsä Wood Form XL is suitable for highly demanding concrete formwork applications: • Shuttering systems • Concrete element industry • Girder formwork Transport industry High quality large size Form XL panels can be used in various transport industry applications: • Trailer bulkheads, side panels and back boards, agricultural trailers • Bus floor constructions, luggage area floors Major advantages • Larger sizes with unvisible joints • Durable and weather resistant overlay • Strong and rigid • Easy to clean and re-use • Good chemical resistance • Dimensionally stable • Easy to machine and fasten using conventional woodworking tools and fasteners • Withstands impacts and other forms of bruising • Environmentally friendly • We

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Base plywood Size tolerances The base plywood of Metsä Wood Form XL is Metsä Wood Birch. Birch plywood is made of cross-bonded 1.4 mm thick birch veneers bonded with weather- and boil-resistant phenol formaldehyde adhesive. Measured in accordance with standard EN 324, the plywood size and squareness tolerances meet EN 315 requirements. The core panel of the large size Form XL is scarf-jointed from standard size birch plywood panels using weather-resistant adhesive. PANEL TOLERANCES The panel is overlaid with durable and hard phenolic overlay. Standard overlay are 450 g/m² yellow and 220...

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Panel strength properties Due to the scarf jointed core plywood, the strength values of Metsä Wood Form XL in the longitudinal direction of the panel are ca. 65 % of standard Metsä Wood Birch plywood values. In the cross direction of the panel the strength values are similar to standard Birch plywood. Stiffness values in both directions are similar to standard Birch plywood. MECHANICAL PROPERTIES* THICKNESS* MEAN MODULUS OF (mm) ELASTICITY** (N/mm2) CHARACTERISTIC BENDING STRENGTH** (N/mm2) * Moisture content 12 % ** Properties determined according to EN 789 standard The Concrete formwork...

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