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Automotive Interior Thin Plywood Line

Our Automotive Interior Special Plywood Thin Panel Production Line utilizes advanced automation technology, specifically designed for producing high-strength, lightweight, and eco-friendly plywood for automotive interiors. The production line includes core processes such as precision cutting, multi-layer hot pressing, surface treatment, and waterproof coating. It supports customized thickness and dimensions (e.g., 0.5-3mm thin panels) and complies with international environmental standards. Suitable for mass production of automotive interior components such as dashboards, door panels, and seat backplates, it offers high efficiency (daily output up to 5000㎡), low energy consumption, and strong stability, helping customers improve product quality and reduce production costs.
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Automotive Interior Thin Plywood Line

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 Complete Production Equipment

This production line is a highly automated and continuous system specifically designed for manufacturing thin plywood that meets the high standards of the automotive industry (e.g., lightweight, high strength, low VOC, weather resistance). The complete set of equipment typically consists of the following core sections:


1. Raw Material Preparation & Processing Section

  Peeler / Slicer: Peels or slices logs into exquisite veneers of predetermined thickness (usually 0.5-2.0mm).

 Veneer Dryer: Uses roller or mesh belt dryers to precisely control the moisture content of the veneers to process requirements (e.g., 8-12%), ensuring subsequent bonding quality.

 Veneer Clipping & Splicing Machine: Cuts, sorts, and automatically splices dried veneers into full-size sheets of the required dimensions, reducing waste and improving material utilization.

  Veneer Sander: Polishes the veneer surface to remove burrs and imperfections, obtaining a smooth and even gluing surface.

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2. Glue Application & Layup Section

  Roller Coater / Glue Spreader: Applies eco-friendly adhesives (e.g., low-formaldehyde UF resin, soy-based adhesive, or PUR hot melt) evenly and quantitatively onto the veneer surface. This equipment is equipped with a precise glue application control system.

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GLUE MIXER

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 Automatic Layup Machine: Automatically and accurately stacks glued and unglued veneers according to the predetermined number of layers and grain direction to form a mat. This is a key step in ensuring product structural symmetry and stability.

  Aging Section Conveyor: Allows the assembled mat to rest briefly for proper adhesive penetration and pre-curing, improving initial tack.


3. Hot Pressing & Forming Section

  Pre-press: Subjects the mat to cold or slightly hot pre-pressing for initial bonding, facilitating transportation and preventing misalignment when entering the hot press.

  Loader & Unloader: Automatically feeds the mat into the hot press and removes the pressed panels, enabling continuous production, improving efficiency, and ensuring safety.

  Multi-opening Hot Press / Continuous Flat Press: The core equipment of the production line. By precisely controlling the three key process parameters—temperature, pressure, and time—it fully cures the adhesive, permanently bonding the veneers into high-strength panels. It is usually equipped with high-precision hydraulic and heating systems.

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4. Post-processing & Finishing Section

  Cooler & Turner: Cools and turns the high-temperature panels after hot pressing to prevent warping and dissipate heat.

  Calibrating Sander: Typically a wide-belt sander with multiple heads (e.g., three or four heads) that performs fine sanding on both sides of the panel, ensuring precise and consistent thickness and an extremely smooth surface, providing a perfect substrate for subsequent laminating or painting.

  Cross-Cut Saw / Panel Size Saw: Automatically cuts large-format panels into the required precise dimensions according to order requirements.

  Quality Inspection Station: Equipped with thickness gauges, strength testers, etc., for sampling finished products to ensure they meet standards for thickness, density, bonding strength, and environmental compliance.

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5. Automation Control System

  Central Control Room (PLC/PC): Integrates PLCs and industrial computers for coordinated control of the entire production line, parameter setting (temperature, pressure, speed, glue volume, etc.), data monitoring, and fault diagnosis, achieving intelligent and stable production.


Production Line Characteristics Summary:

High automation, high precision, high efficiency, energy saving & environmental protection, stable and reliable. The finished product quality meets the stringent requirements for automotive interior components.

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 Production Process


The production of thin plywood for automotive interiors is a precise and highly automated process designed to ensure the final product has high strength, light weight, low VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) emissions, and excellent dimensional stability. The core process is as follows:


Step 1: Raw Material Preparation & Processing

1.  Debarking & Cooking: Select high-quality logs (e.g., poplar, eucalyptus, birch) for debarking and steam softening to facilitate better peeling.

2.  Veneer Peeling: The softened logs are peeled on a precision lathe into thin veneers with uniform thickness (typically 0.5mm to 2.0mm). This is the foundation for the uniform thickness of the finished product.

3.  Veneer Drying: The wet veneers from peeling are dried through roller or mesh belt dryers, precisely controlling their moisture content within the range of 8%-12%. Precise moisture content is essential for ensuring bonding quality and preventing delamination and deformation.

4.  Veneer Clipping & Sorting: The dried veneers are clipped, sorted, and spliced based on size and quality. Defective sections with knots, cracks, etc., are removed to ensure only high-quality veneers proceed to the next steps.


Step 2: Glue Application & Layup

5.  Glue Spreading: The sorted veneers pass through a roller coater or glue spreader, where a layer of special eco-friendly adhesive (e.g., low-formaldehyde UF resin, soy-based protein glue, or PUR hot melt) is applied evenly on their surface. The glue volume is controlled by a precision system to ensure accurate and uniform application.

6.  Layup (Assembling): The glued veneers and unglued veneers (typically an odd number of layers like 3-ply or 5-ply) are accurately stacked together by an automatic layup machine according to a predetermined grain direction (adjacent layers are perpendicular). This forms the "mat." This process is crucial for the internal stress balance and strength of the finished product.


Step 3: Pre-pressing & Hot Pressing Curing

7.  Cold Pre-pressing: The assembled mat first enters a cold pre-press, where significant pressure is applied at room temperature to initially bond it into a solid unit, facilitating transportation and preventing misalignment when entering the hot press.

8.  Hot Press Curing: This is the most critical step. The mat is fed into a multi-opening hot press or continuous flat press, where it is subjected to high temperature (typically 120-150°C) and high pressure (typically 5-8 MPa) for a specific duration. The heat and pressure fully cure the adhesive, permanently and firmly bonding the veneers together to form high-strength plywood.


Step 4: Post-processing & Finishing

9.  Cooling: The pressed panels are very hot and must undergo forced cooling and turning in a cooler/turner to stabilize their internal structure and prevent warping.

10. Sanding & Calibrating: The cooled panels undergo fine sanding on both sides through a multi-head wide-belt calibrating sander. This process eliminates thickness deviation, resulting in panels with an extremely smooth surface and precise, consistent thickness, providing a perfect substrate for subsequent laminating, wrapping, or painting.

11. Cutting & Trimming: Using high-precision cross-cut saws or CNC panel saws, the large-format panels are cut into the final exact dimensions and shapes required by the customer's drawings (e.g., shapes for dashboards, door panels, seat backboards).

12. Inspection & Packaging: Finished products undergo 100% visual inspection and sampling tests to check dimensions, appearance, bonding strength, moisture content, and ensure environmental indicators like formaldehyde emissions comply with automotive industry standards (e.g., VDA, ISO). Qualified products are dust-proof packaged and stored.


Key Features: The entire process is highly automated and continuous, emphasizing environmental protection and precision, ensuring every piece of plywood meets the stringent requirements for automotive interior components.

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 The thickness range of automotive interior special plywood thin panels

The thickness range of automotive interior special plywood thin panels varies according to their specific application parts and functional requirements, mainly focusing on the following range:


  Common Thickness Range: 0.5mm ~ 3.0mm; Most Typical Thickness: 1.2mm ~ 2.5mm


Specific application examples:

  0.5mm - 1.5mm: Often used for components with curves or large radians, such as speaker grilles, backing plates for some trim strips, due to their good flexibility.

  1.5mm - 2.5mm: This is the most mainstream thickness range, widely used in major structural components like door panels, seat backboards, trunk partitions, dashboard skeletons, and package trays. It achieves the best balance between lightweight and strength.

  2.5mm - 3.0mm (or thicker): Used for parts requiring higher strength and stiffness, such as certain load-bearing brackets or floor substrates.


Key Characteristics


Automotive interior plywood is different from ordinary construction plywood. It has extremely high performance requirements to meet automotive industry standards:


1.  Lightweight: While ensuring sufficient structural strength, it minimizes thickness and weight, contributing to overall vehicle weight reduction, lower energy consumption, and increased range (particularly important for new energy vehicles).

2.  High Strength & Stiffness: The use of high-quality veneers and special bonding processes gives it a very high strength-to-weight ratio and bending resistance, effectively supporting interior components and withstanding certain impacts.

3.  Excellent Dimensional Stability: Through strict drying and heat treatment with precise moisture content control, it resists cracking, warping, or deformation under the severe temperature and humidity fluctuations inside a car (e.g., -40°C to 80°C), ensuring assembly gaps and aesthetics.

4.  Low VOC & Environmental Friendliness: Must comply with environmental regulations for automotive interior materials. Uses low-formaldehyde or formaldehyde-free eco-friendly adhesives to ensure indoor air quality and protect the health of drivers and passengers.

5.  Good Processability & Laminating Compatibility: The surface is smooth and flat, easy for subsequent processing like CNC cutting, drilling, and milling. It also adheres easily to other interior materials such as PVC, ABS, fabrics, and leather for wrapping, pasting, or laminating.

6.  Weather Resistance & Aging Resistance: Can withstand in-vehicle UV exposure, high temperature, and high humidity environments without delamination, powdering, or significant strength loss over time.

7.  Good Sound Absorption & Thermal Insulation: As a natural wood-based material, it possesses certain sound absorption and thermal insulation properties, helping to improve the vehicle's overall NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness) performance.


Summary: Automotive interior special plywood thin panel is a high-tech composite material. Its core characteristic is the perfect balance between lightweight, high strength, high stability, and environmental safety, making it an indispensable base material in modern automotive interior manufacturing.

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Q:How do we import from you?

A:We have the ability to provide you with a one-stop solution. You can contact us, and then we will provide you with satisfactory cooperation.


Q:Can you provide on-site engineer services?

 A:Yes, usually our engineers are experienced and provide visa, air tickets and flight services.


Q:What payment methods do you offer?

A:Usually T/T and LC. If you have other payment methods, we can also consider it.


Q:Why choose you?

A:1.100% customer-oriented solutions.

2.Team members with 40+ years of experience in the wood industry.

3.The strongest awareness of protecting customer business privacy.

4.Deep insight and understanding of market mysteries.

5.Familiar with international terminology.

6.Attention to details and integrity make us grow.

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 Company Profile

We are Shandong MINGHUNG Wood Based Panel Machinery Co.,Ltd China factory and manufacturer of full sets of Plywood machinery and Veneer machinery. With many years production experience, advanced production technology,experienced workers and professional engineers, we can offer you the suitable, good and strong machinery for you.


We specialize in manufacturing thecomplete production line of Medium density fiberboard (MDF), High densityfiberboard (HDF),Particle board (PB), Oriented strand board (OSB) , Veneerable super strong particle board (LSB),Laminated board and veneer.



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We have maintained long-term cooperation with renowned freight forwarding companies, and the mechanical equipment we produce is sold to multiple countries around the world.


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