LVL Plywood

Q: 1. Is LVL Plywood stronger than solid wood or regular plywood?

Yes.LVL offers higher bending strength, stiffness, and dimensional stability than solid wood or standard plywood.Its engineered structure minimizes knots, warping, and internal defects—ideal for high-load and repetitive-use conditions in construction.

Q: 3. What are the most common thicknesses and sizes for LVL Plywood?

Typical B2B-requested specifications include:Thickness: 38 mm, 42 mm, 45 mm, 63 mmWidth: 90–300 mmLength: 1,000–6,000 mmMoisture Content: 8–12%Custom size LVL beams or sheets are commonly available depending on project needs.

Size: 30*50 /40*50 /25*60 x 1200mm /2400mm or as your request
Length: customized
Material: Pine Material
Glue: Wbp Glue,Phenolic Glue

What is LVL Plywood?

uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesives. It is typically used for headers, beams, rimboard, and edge-forming material. DONGSTAR LVL offers several advantages over typical milled lumber: Made in a factory under controlled specifications, it is stronger, straighter, and more uniform. Due to its composite nature, it is much less likely than conventional lumber to warp, twist, bow, or shrink. LVL is a type of structural composite lumber, comparable to Glued laminated timber (Gluelam) but with a higher allowable stress.

LVL is short for Laminated Veneer Lumber, which is made of laminated veneer lumber as raw materials. After drying and gluing, according to the grain or most of the grain group billets, and then the plates are laminated by hot pressing. According to the material can be divided into poplar LVL and pine LVL; According to the use can be divided into packaging level LVL, furniture level LVL, building level LVL; It has no structural characteristics of solid wood sawn timber: high strength, toughness, good stability, precise specifications, compared with solid wood sawn timber in strength, toughness improved by 3 times.

Advantages of LVL Plywood

1. LVL plate can be the scar joints, cracks and other defects of logs scattered, staggered, thus greatly reducing the impact on the strength, so that its quality is stable, uniform strength, material variability is small, is the replacement of solid wood is the most ideal structural material.
2. The size can be adjusted at will, not affected by the shape and defects of logs, LVL plate longest up to 8 meters, the thickest up to 300MM, according to their own material conditions, select size specifications, arbitrary cutting, raw material utilization rate up to 100%.
3. LVL processing and wood, sawing, planing, gouging, opening tenon, nail, etc.
4. LVL has insect prevention, corrosion prevention, fire prevention, waterproof and other properties, mainly in the production process of the corresponding pretreatment or use of special adhesive.
5. LVL has strong seismic performance and shock absorption performance and can resist the fatigue damage caused by periodic stress.
6.Tthis product is green, pollution-free, in the production process using high quality environmental adhesive; Formaldehyde emissions meet the standards of developed countries, ensuring your health.

FAQ

1. Is LVL Plywood stronger than solid wood or regular plywood?

Yes.
LVL offers higher bending strength, stiffness, and dimensional stability than solid wood or standard plywood.
Its engineered structure minimizes knots, warping, and internal defects—ideal for high-load and repetitive-use conditions in construction.

2. Is LVL Plywood moisture-resistant?

LVL is naturally more stable than solid wood, but moisture resistance depends on the glue type:
WBP Phenolic Glue: Best for formwork, humid environments, and repeated reuse.
Melamine Glue: Suitable for general indoor structural use.
For long-term outdoor exposure, LVL should be surface-treated or sealed to improve durability.

3. What are the most common thicknesses and sizes for LVL Plywood?

Typical B2B-requested specifications include: