Lightweight Wood Panel Materials - Products and Technology

EconCore introduces a range of ThermHex honeycomb panels with wooden skins.
Next to saving weight, a key driver to this development is the overall tendency in the market to reduce the amount of natural resources for manufacturing of panels for furniture.
This objective is achieved by combining low density honeycomb core and skins such as HDF, plywood or CPL. Lightweight Wood Panels show very good mechanical performance whereas the low density spacer on a basis of polypropylene offers a very good support also in high humidity environments, where traditional paper based materials very fast show degradation and problems in application.

Although polypropylene is perfectly recyclable, ThermHex technology can be adjusted to work with bio-based polymers such as PLA. Looking at the current rate of development of lightweight material solutions in furniture and B&C markets, hybridizing of PLA based ThermHex honeycomb with HDF and plywood skins would be probably a next natural step – says Tomasz Czarnecki, Technical Marketing Manager of EconCore – we are prepared to realize this concept.

More information on the Lightweight Wood Panel Materials can be found in the download section.