The Vela catalogue

Wood panels
for your project.

Compare materials and surfaces for furniture, linings, packaging and construction. Start with what you want to make.

Birch plywood desks, shelves and pegboard panelling in a workspace
Birch plywood desks and panelling: an example of use. Photo Matt Livey.

Plywood

Furniture, linings and fit-outs

Poplar helps keep weight down; birch lets you make a feature of the layered edge. Compare them with okoumé, phenolic and veneered plywood.

Compare plywood options
Kitchen with sage green painted cabinet doors, drawers and a central island
Painted doors and bespoke furniture: an example of MDF in use.

MDF and fibreboard

Surfaces for painting and shaping

The uniform core is suited to routing details in cabinet doors and wall panels. The range also includes thin panels for backs and bottoms.

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Cabinet doors with a decorative wood-effect surface
Wood-effect cabinet doors: an example of melamine-faced board in use.

Particleboard and decorative panels

Furniture and packaging

Raw board for machining or facing, melamine-faced board with a decorative surface, or board faced with real wood veneer. Raw board is also used for packaging.

We also offer moisture-resistant and fire-retardant particleboards.

Explore particleboard
Wall bookcase with shelves, vertical sides and closed storage in a living room
Example of a bookcase combining solid wood and veneered blockboard.

Blockboard and solid wood panels

Bookcases, shelves and bespoke furniture

Veneered blockboard combines low weight with natural wood grain. Single-layer spruce gives you solid wood to work with, including its visible knots and grain.

Compare blockboard and spruce
Detail of a desk with a white laminate top and an exposed plywood edge
HPL-faced desktop with an exposed plywood edge.

HPL-faced plywood

Panels with a laminated surface

For doors, shelves and furniture in offices and shops. The laminated faces need no painting or varnishing; cutting, edges and machining are specified for each part.

Explore HPL-faced plywood
Timber-frame building with OSB sheathing on the walls
OSB wall sheathing in a timber-frame building.

OSB/3

Construction, crates and fit-outs

For timber-frame walls, subfloors and linings, with the strand pattern also suitable for leaving on show indoors. For load-bearing uses, the panel and thickness must meet the design requirements.

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Want visible wood grain?

Veneered panels have a thin layer of real wood over a core. Compare plywood, MDF, blockboard and particleboard cores.

Compare veneered panels

Application photographs show examples of use, not Vela projects.

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