Best Plywood For Cabinets
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Choosing the Right Plywood for Durable, High-Quality Cabinetry
Over the years, our team at Cabinet Timbers has been happy to prepare expert guides outlining how you can get the most value from your wood panel products. But even with all the tips and tricks we’ve outlined, we realise that we’ve never actually written a guide inspired by our namesake: a guide on the best types of plywood for cabinet manufacturing.
You don’t have to scroll too far through our project gallery to see that we’re quite passionate about crafting high-quality cabinets that are purpose built for the environments in which they’re installed. From residential cabinet-making case studies like our McRae veneer cabinets, to our office fitouts and our work with schools, universities, and early learning centres, we’ve drawn from our expansive experience to showcase the best rated plywood products for cabinet manufacturing.
What makes plywood an ideal material for cabinetry?
Lightweight yet durable and with a timeless look and feel, plywood is a solid choice for constructing built-in cabinetry that lasts.
Here are just a few of the key benefits of using plywood for cabinet making:
- Superior strength and durability
- Moisture resistant (with Grade A glue bonds)
- Consistent wood grains with minimal knots, voids, or other defects
- Hard-wearing surfaces that respond well to painting and staining
- A wide variety of grains and finishes to choose from
- Sustainably sourced (through our ethical supply partners)
- Improved cost-efficiency over melamine, MDF, and other wood panel products
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Best Plywood Types for Cabinets
Here are our top three picks for the best plywood to use for manufacturing built-in cabinets.
Birch plywood
A European softwood with a consistent wood grain, Birch plywood is in high demand for contemporary modern, minimalist, and Scandinavian-inspired interiors. Alongside being highly presentable, Birch plywood also boasts multiple lamination layers and almost no spaces or voids, making it a stronger yet lightweight material.
When paired with A bond glues (which is exactly how our Birch plywood is manufactured), these plywood panels are highly durable and are thus suitable for both interior and semi-exposed exterior applications. This makes Birch plywood an ideal choice for cabinetry across a range of different environments, from kitchens, bathrooms, and laundries, to sunrooms and other hybrid indoor/outdoor spaces.
Hoop pine plywood
If you’re looking for locally sourced plywood products that still deliver on aesthetic quality as well as durability, then look no further than hoop pine plywood. In partnership with Austral Plywood, our hoop pine plywood products are sustainably sourced from the Sunshine Coast hinterland from a dedicated Araucaria (Hoop Pine) plantation.
Our hoop pine plywood panels are expressly manufactured to boast a superior strength-to-weight ratio and durable exterior faces that respond well to painting or staining. Our hoop pine plywood is also backed by a 25-year bond warranty, making it a fine choice for interior construction and renovation projects, as well as for manufacturing cabinetry to be installed in all interior environments.
Check out our blog on the differences between birch and hoop pine plywood to help you determine the right fit for your cabinetry.
Marine-grade plywood
Manufactured to AS2272 Standards, our marine-grade plywood is water and boil proof, offering a high-performance strength-to-weight ratio that’s ideal for not only boat building, but also for coastal construction. If you’re looking to build a beach house with plenty of organic wood elements, then you’ll want to pick marine-grade plywood for everything from your panelling and decking to your cabinetry.
Plywood Cabinetry – FAQs
What plywood is best to use for kitchen cabinets?
Plywood that boasts water-resistance and a high strength-to-weight ratio like Birch plywood and hoop pine plywood are the recommended types of plywood to use when constructing kitchen cabinets.
What plywood should I use for painted cabinetry?
Plywood with a consistent wood grain and non-porous veneers like our Maple and birch or hoop pine plywood are most recommended for painted cabinetry. If you are considering using a lower-grade plywood for painted cabinetry, then be sure to follow the primer and paint instructions in our guide on how to paint plywood.
Is marine plywood needed for bathrooms?
While marine plywood isn’t necessarily essential for constructing bathrooms or bathroom cabinetry, it is highly recommended in areas of high moisture. This makes it an ideal choice not only for bathrooms, but also for laundries and other areas where moisture is heavily active.
Browse Our Plywood Materials on Offer at Cabinet Timbers
We take great pride in stocking only the most sustainable, high-quality plywood materials here at Cabinet Timbers. Our Australian plywood manufacturer (Austral Plywoods) have a strong reputation for manufacturing plywood products that adhere to Australian Standards alongside aligning with the Responsible Wood environmental scheme.
If you want to construct highly presentable and durable cabinetry for your next construction or renovation project, then make Cabinet Timbers your trusted supplier for quality plywood products, guaranteed.
Have any questions about our range of plywood materials? Then check out our in-depth plywood guide or simply contact our team by filling in our web enquiry form or giving us a call at (03) 8353 2222.
