The charm of Calibrated Plywood has been seen in India since last 4 years, when its demand created by furniture manufacturers for making cabinet and shutters. The users are acknowledging the use of this plywood in furniture, beds, kitchen cabinetries, wardrobes, sofas thus boosting the queries of plywood without any thickness variation. The growth in Kitchen producing furniture companies, which supply to Kitchen to residential customers, has been fueling demand and queries of 16 mm calibrated plywood in huge quantities.
4 years before the plywood industry has been unable to deliver real ‘Calibrated Plywood’ that can be smoothly used by in furniture making category thus the suppliers are importing such plywood from China, Indonesia and Russia. But, so far a number of plywood producers have created proper set up to produce ‘Calibrated Plywood’. As per market report a dozen of Indian brands have been offering Real Calibrated plywood from 6 mm to 25 mm thicknesses.
A dealer from Bangalore says that he gets extra price for its calibrated plywood range because its demand is improving day to day. He says that all plywood having similar raw materials, but if it is calibrated properly, it has extra advantage, and customers pay extra for this. Plywood uses have been growing among furniture manufacturers, hence they are looking for calibrated plywood in all thicknesses.
According to an estimate, Indian Kitchen/Furniture Industry is ready and adoptive for real calibrated plywood. A survey among OEMs and Kitchen makers clearly hinted the possible opportunity for this product segment. Calibrated plywood bears uniform thickness all across which is achieved by calibrating it in modern high end machines. Uniform thickness all around the ply makes it ideal panel product for use by mechanized automated furniture manufacturers. Smooth surface facilitates an excellent easiness for post lamination and post forming for making furniture, inserts and modular items.