I don't know what to blog about already ='(
Hmm...then I will talk about my yesterday trip to Flexiwood Sdn. Bhd from 2:30pm - 5:30pm.
It's located at Demak Laut Industrial Park.
This trip was organised by my Engineering Management 2 lecturer, Mrs. Pirai.
Flexiwood Sdn. Bhd. are the largest manufacturer and exporter for fancy teak veneered plywood and decorative veneered panels in Malaysia.
From there, Production Manager has shown us their processes of making fancy teak veneered plywood in their factory from the slicing process until the sanding process.
Their processes include:
1) slice the wood into very thin teak. The thickness of the teak are 0.18mm and 0.09mm.
2) After slicing process, the size of the teak is not standard and they will cut those teak into the standard long rectangular size.
3) then they will arrange the teak onto the both sides of the veneered plywood (each side will have 12 pieces of teak). This process will be repeated for each veneered plywoods until they have finished arrange the veneered plywoods with teak.
4) next the teak veneered plywoods will send to be compressed under temperature of 100 degree Celsius (in order to let the teak stick on the plywoods).
5) after complete the compressing process, teak veneered plywoods will go through the sanding process to fill up those imperfect parts.
6) lastly, teak veneered plywoods will be packed (300 pieces in 1 big package) and waiting to be exported.
(hopefully I didn't miss out their process XD)
There are different types of teaks that can be used to produce different type of fancy teak veneered plywoods. Below are some of the examples of their products:
Maple Cluster Burl
Teak Crown Cut
Anyway, it's an interesting trip and I have gained some knowledge from the trip =)
