Construction and Formwork
Film faced shuttering panel, commercial plywood and on/off road truck tyres for contractors and formwork hire fleets.
What Goes Wrong in This Sector
Cost per pour, not cost per panel
A cheap panel that gives four pours costs more than a good one that gives fifteen. The variables are glue class, core species, grade and whether the site seals its cut edges.
Site trucks destroying highway tyres
A tipper that spends most of its day on tarmac and twenty minutes on a broken site approach will tear the shoulders off a highway pattern within months.
Panel deliveries arriving damaged
Loose-loaded panels arrive with the top and bottom sheets written off and the count disputed on a busy site.
What We Do About It
Film faced panels specified by face colour, glue class, core species and grade rather than sold as one undifferentiated product
On/off road tyre patterns such as KG698 and KG697 designed for exactly the mixed-surface duty site trucks do
Pallet packing for mechanical handling and accurate counting on site
Product Categories for This Sector
Shuttering Panel
Film faced shuttering panel in black and brown, 9 to 21 mm, on poplar, combi, hardwood or birch cores with MR or WBP glue, in grades A and AA.
View the range →5 productsCommercial Plywood
Commercial plywood from 3 to 40 mm in six core species, with MR, WBP, E1 and E2 glue classes, including okoume faced and hardwood core options.
View the range →26 productsTruck Tyres
Twenty-six truck radial patterns covering rim diameters from 16 to 24.5 inches, tube-type and tubeless, from light distribution fitments up to wide-base 425 mm covers.
View the range →5 productsOff-the-Road Tyres
Off-the-road radials from 14.00R24 up to 24.00R35, in E-2, E-3, E-4, L-2, L-3 and G-2 service designations for loaders, graders, dump trucks and container handlers.
View the range →Where Buyers in This Sector Usually Start
Guides and Records
How to Cut Oak Plywood Without Chipping
Why thin face veneers tear at the cut, and the blade, feed and support choices that stop it happening.
Read the guide →Buying GuideReading a Truck Tyre Size and Load Index Table
What each column of a TBR specification table means, and how to check a tyre against your axle load before you order.
Read the guide →Material GuideChoosing Film Faced Plywood for Concrete Formwork
Face, glue, grade and core are four separate decisions. Each one moves the cost per pour, and they are often all left to the supplier.
Read the guide → Case studyA Second Film Faced Plywood Line and the Sales Year That Followed
Capacity added at the end of 2008, and the 2009 film faced plywood sales volume the company recorded against it.
Read the record →Questions From Construction and Formwork Buyers
Which Kerns Group products suit construction and formwork?
The categories linked on this page: Shuttering Panel, Commercial Plywood, Truck Tyres, Off-the-Road Tyres.
Can I buy across several categories in one shipment?
Yes. Consolidation across divisions into one container is standard practice here, and it is usually the more efficient way to buy.
What information should I send with an enquiry?
Models, sizes or part numbers, quantities, destination port and your preferred Incoterm. That is enough to return a quotation with a loading plan.
Supplying Construction and Formwork
Send your requirement and a quotation with a container loading plan comes back. Certificate copies are provided with the quotation, not after the order.