Overview

MelaWood's superior quality makes it suitable for all light to medium duty vertical and light duty horizontal applications.  MelaWood's hard, pre-finished surface offers heat-, stain-, and scratch-resistance.  Ease of maintenance is a primary benefit.  MelaWood is available in full board sizes convenient for most vertical interior architecture applications including office furniture, domestic furniture, cladding and shopfitting.

Product Applications

Renowned for its light and medium-duty strength, Melawood is unsurpassed in design flexibility for many diverse applications, including built-in cupboards, wardrobes, kitchen units, bathroom cabinets, display fixtures, room dividers, doors, drawer frontals, single and double-sided panelling, shelving, shopfitting, office furniture and carcassing.

For medium duty vertical and light duty horizontal surface applications, MelaWood with a SupaWood substrate is an ideal product particularly where shaping or edge profiling is required.

MelaWood is easily maintained and cleaned using low-alkaline abrasive-free detergents. Minor stains can be removed using commercial solvents or lacquer thinners.

MelaWood will resist splashes from boiling water and cooking liquids.  MelaWood's exposed edges must be treated with a water repellent sealant especially in areas such as kitchens, bathrooms, sinks, basins, and sculleries.  For moist areas, it is best to combine MelaWood with a moisture-resistant BisonDura substrate.

MelaWood can be worked with standard woodworking tools and machines.  When cutting by hand, ensure that the decorative surface is uppermost and that a fine tooth crosscut saw is used to achieve a clean cut.  When using portable electric saws, a fine tooth saw blade must be used with the blade not protruding more than 10mm above the workpiece.  For industrial applications, the use of tungsten carbide tipped saws and cutters are recommended. For best results use a fine tooth sawblade with a backing plate on the machine base to prevent chipout.

MelaWood is easily matched to a wide variety of commercially available edging including foil, timber, flexible or rigid PVC, Formica, or metal trims.  This offers the fabrictor a multitude of design opportunities and effects.  Surfaces and edges can be integrated to form alternating colour effects and patterns.

All colours in the MelaWood range are available in three finishes:  Peen, a textured, stippled surface; Executive, a smoother, gloss-like finish which optimises the woodgrain effect; and Ashwood; an embossed woodgrain surface.

Due to the fact that the number of combinations of MelaWood items is so great, and because it is not possible to effectively show the different finishes over the web, we have only listed the Ashwood finish MelaWood items above.