slide 1: Decorative Laminates – Their
Types and Laminates Brands in
India
slide 2: What is Decorative Laminates
There is huge growth in Decorative Laminate
manufacturing capacity.
A laminate is usually permanently assembled by heat
pressure or adhesives. High Pressure Decorative
Laminates are key design choice and have a range of
applications and specific benefits of use. Laminates
are valued for their trustworthy equality – in color
tone and luster for designers. Without laminates the
ultramodern interior infrastructure industry cannot
outlive. If plywood adds to the body and functioning of
interiors then laminates render form and ambiance
to any portion.
slide 3: Decorative Laminates a blend of paper and
plastic resins are hard and brittle sheets having
a thickness of around 1 mm and are widely used
as an overlay over wood such as in the case of
laminated table tops wood panels or other
wooden furniture. The sheets have a decorative
surface made using decorative printed paper
and are manufactured in a wide variety of colors
design patterns and textures.
slide 4: Types of Laminates
Classification of Laminates based on
Manufacturing Process
HPL and LPL
The decorative laminate manufacturing process
involves soaking brown paper decorative paper and
translucent paper in plastic based resins. The brown
paper which forms the base is soaked in phenol
formaldehyde while the other two papers are soaked
in melamine resin. The soaked papers after drying
become hard and brittle.
slide 5: These papers are then pressed and bonded together
under high pressure and temperature. Depending on the
amount of pressure used in the bonding process
laminates can be classified as HPL High Pressure
Laminates or LPL Low Pressure Laminates.
High pressure laminates HPL such as those
manufactured under the brand names of Sunmica or
Formica are hard decorative sheets that are commonly
fixed by carpenters over plywood while making the
furniture. In the case of Low Pressure Laminates LPL
only the decorative paper is soaked in Melamine resin
and the laminated paper is then directly bonded to
Particle Boards or Fiber Boards MDF and HDF.
slide 6: Regular Laminate sheets and Compact Laminates
The regular laminate sheets usually have a thickness
that ranges from 0.6 mm to 1.5 mm and these sheets are
glued by carpenters to substrate materials such as
plywood using common adhesives like Fevicol. There
are also other thicker types of laminates manufactured
called Compact Laminates which have a thickness
ranging from 3 mm to 30 mm. These Compact Laminates
are self-supporting and hence do not need to be glued to
woods or any other material. Both the top and bottom
sides of compact laminates have decorative surfaces.
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slide 7: Laminate Brands in India
Sunmica: Sunmica is one of the foremost brands in the
Indian Laminate Industry that has become a household
name and has the highest brand recall amongst Indian
customers. In fact when most Indians say Sunmica what
they mean to say is Laminates.
The Sunmica business division was earlier a part of the
Wadia group company Bombay Burmah Trading
company. However recently in the year 2011 it has been
acquired by Japanese company AICA that manufactures
and markets various kinds of building materials including
laminates. The Sunmica laminate manufacturing unit in
India is located at Rudrapur in the northern state of
Uttaranchal.
slide 8: Formica: Formica International a US-based company has
been the pioneer of the laminates industry in the world.
The company started its operations in the US and later
spread to Europe and Asia. The company operated in
India for about 10+ years from 1963-64 to 1975 after
which they had made an exit from the Indian market.
Formica which is now owned by New Zealand based
company Fletcher Building Products Ltd.has recently
made an entry into the Indian market once again and
has acquired a laminate manufacturing unit at
Ahmedabad in Gujarat India.
slide 9: GreenLam Laminate - from the makers of GreenPly:
GreenPly Industries Ltd. is an India based multi-
national company that has strong presence in the
plywood veneers particle board and decorative
laminates market in India. Laminates manufactured by
Greenply are sold in India under the brand name of
GreenLam Laminates. The company manufactures
decorative laminate sheets at its factories located at
Behror in Rajasthan and at Nalagarh in Himachal
Pradesh.
slide 10: Merino Laminates: Merino is the third largest
manufacturer of decorative laminates in the world. It
entered the Interior design solutions sector in India in
the year 1974 with the manufacturing of plywood. Soon
HPL High-pressure decorative laminates was also
added to its product range when the company set-up
laminate manufacturing factories at Hapur and later at
Rohad near Delhi.
Century: This is another popular company in India that
has been in operation in the industry . The company
makes plywood of different grades decorative
laminates particle boards medium density fibre boards
MDF wood veneers as well as sells readymade
furniture through retail outlets under the brand name of
Nesta.
slide 11: Few more well known laminate companies/brands in
India are listed below.
Sundek
Asis
Virgo
Durian
Delta Laminates
KitVista - from the makers of KitPly
Stylam Laminates
slide 12: CONCLUSION
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