When you choose film faced plywood for formwork, the grade you pick has a direct impact on reuse cycles, concrete finish, and total cost per use.
FOMEX Greenwood offers four main film faced plywood grades – Single Form, Standard Form, Premium Form and Promax Form – so buyers can match panel performance with application, budget and expected reuse cycles.
The FOMEX Greenwood lineup is structured to give you a clear path from entry-level panels to heavy-duty, high-reuse formwork solutions.
The core concept is simple: higher grade = higher glue content and boiling hours = more reuses and better performance under demanding conditions.
Single Form is the entry-level film faced plywood grade, designed for projects with limited reuse requirements and tight budgets.
It typically has one side covered with film-paper and the other side with core veneer, making it suitable for simple structures, small pours, or situations where panels are not expected to be reused many times.
Standard Form is the workhorse grade for many contractors, offering a good balance between cost and performance.
Both sides are coated with standard-quality dark brown phenolic film, providing better surface durability and more stable reuse cycles than entry-level panels.
Premium Form is designed for more demanding projects where higher reuse cycles, better concrete finish and reduced formwork waste are important.
It uses higher-quality phenolic film on both sides and higher glue content, making it more resistant to water, heat and jobsite abuse.
Promax Form is the top-grade solution in the FOMEX Greenwood range, engineered for heavy-duty formwork with the highest reuse expectations.
With the highest glue content and longest boiling hours, Promax Form is built for contractors and rental systems that need panels to perform consistently over long project cycles.
Although application and handling conditions will always influence actual performance, the technical parameters of each grade provide a clear benchmark for decision-making.
The table below summarizes key differences between Single Form, Standard Form, Premium Form and Promax Form within the FOMEX Greenwood film faced plywood range.
The main visible difference between grades is the face/back configuration: Single Form uses a single film side plus a core veneer side, while the other three grades feature double-sided phenolic film with varying quality levels.
For applications where both sides are exposed or where boards will be reused intensively, double-sided phenolic film (Standard, Premium, Promax) is usually the safer choice.
All four grades use plantation hardwood cores such as Eucalyptus and Acacia, sometimes blended with mixed hardwood for optimal balance of strength, weight and cost.
This consistency in core species allows you to upgrade or downgrade grade while keeping similar structural behavior and handling characteristics on site.
Across the FOMEX Greenwood range, thickness typically runs from 9–30 mm, covering common dimensions like 12 mm, 15 mm, 18 mm and 21 mm used in global formwork standards.
Tight thickness tolerance (around ±0.5 mm) supports safer and more stable formwork systems, especially when panels are used with beams, shores and formwork accessories that depend on consistent dimensions.
The most important hidden difference between grades is glue content and corresponding boiling hours – the higher these values, the better the panel typically performs under water, heat and load.
Single Form starts with lower glue content and shorter boiling hours for basic requirements, while Promax Form reaches the highest glue content and longest boiling hours for the most demanding, high-reuse projects.
For small-scale projects, simple residential work or jobs where panels will only be reused a few times, Single Form and Standard Form are usually sufficient.
They offer a competitive entry price and reasonable performance, as long as you do not expect long reuse cycles or extremely harsh conditions.
For large infrastructure, high-rise towers, long-cycle projects or rental formwork fleets, Premium Form and Promax Form are generally the safer and more economical choice.
Higher glue content, longer boiling hours and better film quality help maintain panel integrity, reduce replacement needs and ensure consistent concrete finish over time.
Many buyers initially focus only on price per sheet, but a more accurate approach is to look at cost per use.
Even if Premium or Promax panels cost more per sheet, their significantly higher reuse cycles can reduce the total number of panels required and cut labor and replacement costs over the life of a project.
One of the most common mistakes is selecting the cheapest film faced plywood without calculating how many times it can realistically be reused.
Cheap panels that fail after only a few uses can create higher total costs due to frequent replacement, extra labor, more waste and inconsistent concrete finish.
Another frequent mistake is ignoring glue content and boiling hours, which directly relate to bond strength and water resistance.
Without understanding these technical parameters, buyers may assume two panels with similar appearance are equivalent, even though their durability and performance in harsh conditions can be very different.
To make the choice easier, the simple matrix below shows which FOMEX Greenwood grade typically fits different project types.
Instead of leaving grade selection to guesswork, FOMEX encourages buyers to share project details so engineers can match the right FOMEX Greenwood grade to each application.
By reviewing drawings, concrete pour sequences, target reuse cycles and environmental conditions, FOMEX can help you optimize grade selection, balancing performance, risk and overall cost.
If you are unsure whether Single, Standard, Premium or Promax is the right solution for your project, FOMEX GLOBAL can provide a tailored recommendation based on real project data.
Share your structural drawings, reuse targets, budget and destination market, and the FOMEX team will advise on the most suitable film faced plywood grade and specification for your specific needs.
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