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Columbia Forest Products is North America’s largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood and hardwood veneer products. Columbia Forest Products has been a trusted raw material provider to WDS for many years.

Plywood panels are delivered to WDS's manufacturing facility by the truckload or in 40-sheet units. WDS stores large quantities of panel products in its New Washington, Ohio warehouse for quick turn around on cut to size items using common materials and thicknesses.

The adjacent YouTube lesson will help you understand how plywood is made.

The adjacent 8 minute YouTube lesson will help you understand how WDS uses our heavy-duty three axis CNC Routers to machine flat panels products such as plywood, decorative hardware plywood, particleboard, medium density overlay (MDO), medium density fiberboard (MDF), oriented strand board (OSB), high pressure laminates, veneers, thermally fused melamine, Solid Surface, PVC Foam, King ColorBoard®/ColorCore®/Starboard® HDPE, Acrylic, Polycarbonate, Lexan™, Plastics, Phenolic C (Canvas Fabric).

A CNC trim fixture is not required for this type of CNC fabrication. A CNC trim fixture is only required when a 3-dimensional part must be CNC trimmed using one of our heavy-duty five axis CNC Routers.

High pressure laminate is commonly used as a decorative surface for use in furniture, office and retail spaces, countertops, worktops and other applications. Wilsonart®, Formica® and Nevamar® manufacture and distribute surfacing materials to part fabricators like WDS.

WDS can help you color coordinate various surfaces by matching HPL, Thermally Fused Laminate Panels and Edgebanding. Surface textures on available laminates range from dramatic to natural. Achieve the look you want for any design challenge or budget.

Did you know laminate is 70% paper? High pressure laminate is a paper-based product created by bonding melamine-impregnated decorative papers to layers of resin-treated kraft paper under high heat and pressure. In the press, decorative papers are permanently bonded to the kraft paper to form a sheet of laminate. The adjacent YouTube lesson will help you understand how laminate is made.

Early stage and small to mid-size companies face issues when they need smaller volumes in new product ramp-up. WDS recognizes this dilemma and can fit that small to medium volume market. Of course, WDS can meet large production runs as well.

For smaller volume and new product ramp-up on the wood products side, WDS can usually source single panels from distribution if we don't already stock the chosen panel in our warehouse.