GreenSage E-zine May/June 2009

High Strength, Honeycomb Wood Veneer Panels

The foundation for the strength of these honeycomb panels is a honeycomb structure made of 100% vertical grain wood veneer implanted in low density foam to create the newly patented Sing Wood Veneer Honeycomb Core. They can have any type of facial board: hardwood, softwood, plywood, fiberglass, plastic, metal, etc. The combination of the honeycomb core material with a choice of outer sheeting produces low-cost high-strength, lightweight panels and beams suited to a variety of applications.

Honeycomb core - This is the strongest, lightweight, affordable, earth-friendly honeycomb core around. Sing wood veneer honeycomb core takes less energy to produce than other honeycomb cores such as aluminum, plastic, and paper. They have only 10% or less of wood and almost 90% air.

You have a choice of the type of foam you will use for insulation and sound deadening properties. The choices of foam available are urethane foam, recycled EPS foam, phonolic foam, or soy based urethane foam.

Sing Honeycomb Panels are easy to machine and can be cut just like solid wood. They do not require a special saw or a smooth cutting surface. Its easy to apply edge banding with any edge banding machine and regular cutting tools.

These honeycomb panels work just like paper honeycomb and use solid wood for fastening hardware, but has stronger mechanical bonding than paper honeycomb because they're made of solid wood veneer instead of paper. Paper honeycomb loses its strength as moisture content increases. These honeycomb panels can be exposed to the rain and sun in a wet climate for 3 years and will remain structurally solid.

They're lightweight, rot resistant, and have sound deadening properties.

Owner and inventor Peter Sing founded Sing Homes www.singloghomes.com in 1992. He patented a sawing technique that is used to produce quarter-sawn wood strips, which are then laminated with non-toxic glue to form one side of what he termed the Sing Square Log. He continued tinkering with his original idea and came up with the Honeycomb Core product, which took the dimensional strength of vertically cut wood and combined it into what he refers to as a reinforced SIP—a sandwich panel made from finish-grade plywood skins and vertical grain and wood fiber/rigid foam core, structurally bonded by non-toxic adhesive.

The panels can be used as door cores, garage door panels, window frames, counters, and cabinets, and as a substrate for many types of veneers.

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