What is high pressure laminate
What is high pressure laminate? To answer this question, you have to understand the key of the following three questions. How do we call “high pressure laminate” in different countries? How does high pressure laminate produce and what does it look like? What are the applications of high pressure laminate normally? After solving these three problems, you may have a general idea about high pressure laminate.
How do we call “high pressure laminate” in different countries?
High pressure laminate is really a vivid word describing its production process which also has a lot of nick name in different areas. In general, people all over the world are calling high pressure laminate as below.
Compact Laminate. It is another title what we often use because the inner structure of HPL is really compact, in other words it has higher density than plywood and MDF which means it has better performance like hardness and durability as well.
Solid Phenolic Board. I have to admit this name is used in fewer areas even if you Google it, you couldn’t get a good answer. In fact, solid phenolic board is depending on its physical and chemical properties. For one thing, high pressure laminate is extremely solid compared to general board which has been proved by many tests online. For another thing, phenolic is a common chemical widely using in the construction industry also for high pressure laminate. However, you could totally ignore the influence of phenolic on qualified high pressure laminate after a series of strict production process.
compact grade laminate, compact laminate board, HPL, solid grade laminate panels and so many other developed names are creating and using in different countries. What we need to do is to make clear that they are all pointing one same thing.
All in all, high pressure laminate and compact laminate are two main name for these multipurpose building material.
How does high pressure laminate produce and what does it look like?
High pressure laminate is a wear-resistant decorative panel which is also known as the anti-special board by the decoration and color on paper impregnated with melamine resin, plus multi-layered black or blown kraft paper impregnated with phenolic or urea-formaldehyde resin, layering, and then steel at high pressure (150 degrees C), high pressure (1430 psi) environment from repression. What does it look like? Two pictures for your reference as below.
What are the applications of high pressure laminate normally?
Well, it is a difficult question indeed for I have written a article named multipurpose compact laminate describing where could it be used. Therefore, I don’t wanna talk about its application here repeated.
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