Fleece Backed Veneer

Fleece-backed veneer is a thin wood veneer sheet or roll bonded to a layer of non-woven fabric (fleece). This backing enhances the veneer’s stability, durability, and flexibility, making it ideal for applications like furniture, doors, and profile wrapping.

What is Fleece?

Fleece is a type of non-woven textile fabric. When bonded to paper-thin wood veneers, it helps prevent cracking and breaking during handling and application.

Benefits of Fleece Backed Veneer

• Stability: Keeps ultra-thin wood veneers intact and easy to handle.
• Durability: Extends the lifespan of the veneer.
• Flexibility: Allows seamless application on curved or uneven surfaces.

For our products, we use 25 gsm white non-woven fabric as the standard backing for fleece veneers. For added thickness, 40 gsm non-woven fabric is available upon request.

To reduce costs and maximize wood resources, natural wood veneers are cut as thin as possible (as little as 0.1 mm). However, thin veneers can easily crack or break, especially during application.

Fleece backing solves this issue, making even delicate veneers like oak, teak, or rosewood durable and easy to work with. These backed veneers are particularly useful for projects requiring light transparency or for thin wet veneers that are challenging to handle.

Bamboo veneers are a type of reconstituted veneer. Due to the natural splitting between bamboo strips, raw bamboo veneers cannot be used without fleece backing.

Fleece backing supports bamboo veneers ranging from 0.25 mm to 0.6 mm in thickness, ensuring stability and preventing peeling. Common bamboo veneer sheet sizes are 2500×430 mm, but widths can be spliced up to 1260 mm.

For rare and exotic wood veneers cut to ultra-thin sizes (0.1 mm–0.2 mm), fleece backing is essential to enhance flexibility and durability. Without this support, these delicate veneers are prone to breaking during handling and application.

Examples of Fleece-Backed Veneers

1. Cross-Cut End Grain Veneers: End grain veneers, such as oak and ash, are particularly fragile and prone to splitting. Fleece backing provides the necessary support to prevent cracking during use.
2. End Grain Walnut Veneer: Walnut end grain veneer is more stable than ash or oak, but fleece backing is still recommended to ensure durability and flexibility.
3. Woven Veneers: Veneers with woven patterns benefit significantly from a hot-pressed fleece backing, which stabilizes the woven structure and prevents deformation.
4. Matching Veneer Layons: Matching layons often require fleece backing to ensure consistency and structural integrity, particularly in intricate designs.

By adding fleece backing, these veneers become durable, flexible, and practical for various applications. This process ensures that even the most delicate and exotic veneer types can be used effectively in furniture, doors, and decorative projects.