Strandply Furniture Essentials · The Flagship Board
Hybrid OSB. Seven layers, pressed as one — a veneer face over a cross-laid core.
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Hybrid OSB is Strandply's next-generation engineered board — the flagship of the range, positioned deliberately above conventional OSB. It takes the structural intelligence of oriented strands as its foundation, and refines the panel around one question: what does premium furniture actually demand of its material?
Furniture today is made by machines that assume consistency — CNC routers, edge banders, press lines, finish systems. Hybrid OSB is conceived for exactly that world: a panel whose flatness, dimensional stability and machining behaviour let production lines run at full confidence.
Because in premium furniture, the surface is the product — and the surface is only ever as good as the board beneath it. Hybrid OSB is developed for surface quality and premium finishing compatibility first, with the strength of strand engineering underneath.
Conventional OSB proved that engineered wood could out-build the tree. Hybrid OSB's ambition is the next step: that engineered wood can out-finish it — precision, stability and refinement in one panel.
Construction, specification and test results are published below, taken from the OSB Hybrid Ply catalogue.
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Movement One
Precision is not a promise added at the end; it is the way a board is conceived. Hybrid OSB is developed around exact faces, held dimensions and predictable behaviour — so that what leaves the drawing arrives in the room unchanged.
Movement Two
The modern workshop is a calibrated machine, and it deserves a calibrated material. Hybrid OSB is made for CNC precision, clean machining and reliable finishing lines — a panel that keeps pace with automation instead of apologising to it.
Movement Three
Designers do not specify boards; they specify certainty. Certainty that the surface will take the finish. That the panel will hold its line. That the hundredth unit will match the first. Hybrid OSB is built to be that certainty.
Movement Four
Furniture excellence is decided in millimetres and years — the millimetres of a flush edge, the years of a door closing true. Hybrid OSB exists for both measures at once.
Movement Five
Every generation of engineered wood has replaced something: solid timber, then plywood, then ordinary panels. The next replacement is quieter — ordinary expectations. That is the future Hybrid OSB is built for.
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The Object
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The Construction
Veneer faces outside, veneer cores beneath them, and a cross-laid centre between two longitudinal layers. The board is built symmetrically about that middle so it has no weak direction.
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Specification
Thickness range
11 – 25 mm
Panel size
2440 × 1220 mm
Tolerance
± 0.75 mm
Grade
MRE0 grade certification is available as an option.
Construction
Veneer core with longitudinal and cross-cut veneer strand
Timber
Plantation timber
Formaldehyde content
0.07 ppmASTM D6007-14, tested by Universal Testing & Research Centre.
Marking
ISPM 15 approved
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Tested
Results for the load-bearing grade against IS 19267 : 2025. The left figure is what the standard asks for. The right is what the board returned.
Modulus of rupture, major axis 10–18 mm
16.00
25.00N/mm²
Modulus of rupture, minor axis 10–18 mm
8.00
16.00N/mm²
Modulus of elasticity, major axis 10–18 mm
2250
4000N/mm²
Modulus of elasticity, minor axis 10–18 mm
1100
2000N/mm²
Internal bond strength, minimum individual
0.25
0.35N/mm²
Screw withdrawal, face 10–18 mm
2200
4400N
Screw withdrawal, edge 10–18 mm
2200
4000N
Thickness swelling, 24 hours maximum
22 %
10%
Moisture content range
5 – 15 %
5 – 7%
Thickness tolerance maximumSource specification requires confirmation
± 0.8 mm
± 1.0mm
Density 10–18 mm
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720 – 730kg/m³
Figures for the 10–18 mm band as published in the OSB Hybrid Ply catalogue. Values for 18–30 mm are given there in full. The thickness tolerance row is reproduced exactly as printed in the catalogue, where the obtained figure is wider than the prescribed one; every other row is tighter. It is carried here unaltered pending confirmation.
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Applications
First, engineered wood learned to be strong. Now it learns to be perfect.
OSB Hybrid Ply catalogue