Phenolic plywood is about 10 -18% more expensive than MR and melamine plywood of same thickness . Customers usually ask why phenolic plywood is so expensive . The reasons are as the following:

1. Phenolic glue is 50-80% more expensive than MR and melamine glue .

酚醛胶水要比三聚氰胺胶水和脲醛树脂贵50-80%

2. In order to guarantee a better glue bonding strength, the compression time for phenolic plywood have to be longer than that for MR/melamine plywood . This means we have to spend more producing time for phenolic plywood than MR/melamine plywood . Spending more time means costs increase .

为了保证胶合强度，酚醛胶的压缩时间要比脲醛胶和三胺胶水的长。这就意味着压缩时间长就增加了生产酚醛胶的成本。

3. Because the compression time for phenolic plywood is longer, the compression ratio for phenolic plywood is bigger than that for MR/melamine plywood . This leads to that the veneers for phenolic plywood must be thicker than the veneers for MR/melamine plywood of same thickness . In this situation, the costs of core veneers for phenolic plywood are higher than that for MR/melamine plywood .

由于酚醛胶的压缩时间长，所以要达到和脲醛树脂/三聚氰胺的同样厚度，就必须增加酚醛板子的单板厚度，这就是从另一方面增加了酚醛板的成本。

4. Because the compression time for phenolic plywood is longer, the energy (including coal,electricity and so on) will be spent more and the labor costs will rising accordingly during the production of each piece of phenolic plywood .

因为酚醛胶的压缩时间长，所有的能源（煤炭和电力等）会相应的提高成本还有人工都会提高这个成本。

Because of the above mentioned 4 reasons , the phenolic plywood is much more expensive than MR/melamine plywood .

However, do you prefer phenolic plywood or MR/melamine plywood ?