Veneer is a thin sheet of wood obtained from the slicing or derulation of a log, usually with a thickness of 0.5 mm.
It is glued to substrates such as MDF, chipboard or multilayer panels using the veneer technique. This method optimizes the use of wood, reducing the amount of raw material needed: 1 m² of 3 cm solid wood is equivalent to 50 m² of veneer.
To be colored, natural veneer is first bleached and purified, to remove all chemical components from the wood in the fiber, then immersed in the dyeing solution, imparting color to the wood in the thickness of the fiber and being able to adopt any color on the color scale. This process makes it possible to obtain a non-toxic, woodworm-proof dyed veneer with new mechanical and chemical-physical qualities.
Multilaminar veneer (MW, multilaminar wood) consists of many thin sheets of even different wood species that, after being individually colored, are stacked and assembled so as to obtain real solid woods from which multilaminar veneers are then made. The final material is wood in its own right and also brings with it certain advantages, such as uniformity of color and repeatability of texture, and greater environmental sustainability during the production cycle due to optimization of the material and limitation of production waste. Tabu has gathered the complete collection of its veneers inside Box 555, divided into 13 color-scale folders and embodies the best of technological knowledge developed in nearly 100 years of wood dyeing and earned TABU an Honorable Mention from ADI’s Compasso d’Oro.