Bendywood® is a solid hardwood that can be worked like normal wood and then bent in a cold and dry condition, enabling you to reduce working costs, improve quality and increase productivity.

This unique wood can be bent because of a method that was patented in 1917. The blanks of hardwood (beech, ash, oak, maple, cherry and walnut) have been subjected to a particular thermo-mechanical process. At first the blanks are steamed to soften the cell walls. Then, still damp, the blanks are compressed along their length for about 20%. Finally, they are dried in this compressed form.

The maximum size of our Bendywood® blanks amounts to 120x120x2200mm (4-3/4” x 4-3/4” x 86-1/2”).

Bendywood® can be bent up to a guaranteed maximum radius of 10 times its thickness. A 10mm (1”) thick section can be bent to a radius of 100mm (10”). Longer sections, from 2200mm (86-1/2”) up to a maximum of 6600mm (21.65′), can be bent up to a guaranteed radius of 20 times their thickness, as they are supplied jointed. A 10mm (1”) thick section can be bent to a radius of 200mm (20”).

Thin sections of Bendywood® can easily be bent by hand. For thicker sections, starting from 10mm, we advise to use pulleys, clamps, belts, ropes or a ring rolling bending machine.