Your news story ‘NPPD to publish plywood producer "approved" list’ begins ‘Brazilian, Indonesian and Malaysian producers will be excluded from an approved list of plywood producers to be published by the National Panel Products Division‘. We believe this misrepresents the situation, giving the initial impression that Brazilian, Indonesian and Malaysian products are unapproved for use and substandard generally.
We understand that BS 5268 lists plywoods that conform with the standard and that NPPD simply reproduced this list for the sake of clarification for its members. Brazilian, Indonesian and Malaysia producers are not specifically excluded; their products have simply not been included in a list of plywoods that are currently recognised as meeting BS 5268.
