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Product Weights
Lumber & Panel Weights
The two charts below provide pound-per-square foot weights for a variety of rough lumber species and structural panels including plywood, MDF, particle board and melamine.
| Lumber Weights | |||||||||
| Rough Lumber Species | Pounds per Board Foot | ||||||||
| Alder (15/16″) | 2.15 | ||||||||
| Ash | 3.10 | ||||||||
| Basswood | 2.20 | ||||||||
| Beech | 3.85 | ||||||||
| Yellow or White Birch | 3.70 | ||||||||
| Aromatic Cedar | 2.80 | ||||||||
| Spanish Cedar | 2.75 | ||||||||
| Cherry | 3.30 | ||||||||
| Cypress | 2.80 | ||||||||
| Douglas Fir | 3.00 | ||||||||
| Hickory or Pecan | 4.25 | ||||||||
| Lyptus | 4.40 | ||||||||
| Mahogany | 3.45 | ||||||||
| Hard Maple | 3.80 | ||||||||
| Pacific Maple | 3.00 | ||||||||
| Soft Maple | 3.30 | ||||||||
| Red Oak | 4.00 | ||||||||
| White Oak | 4.10 | ||||||||
| Eastern White Pine | 2.70 | ||||||||
| Ponderosa Pine | 2.67 | ||||||||
| Southern Yellow Pine | 3.27 | ||||||||
| Poplar | 2.90 | ||||||||
| Sapele | 3.85 | ||||||||
| Walnut | 3.50 | ||||||||
| Panel Weights | |||||||||
| Pounds per Square Foot | 1/8″ or 2.6mm |
1/4″ or 5.2mm |
3/8″ or 9mm |
1/2″ or 12mm |
5/8″ or 15mm |
3/4″ or 18mm |
1″ or 25mm |
1-1/8″ | 1-1/4″ |
| Domestic Hardwood VC and Bending Plywood |
0.42 | 0.85 | 1.25 | 1.63 | 2.00 | 2.47 | 3.28 | 3.70 | 4.15 |
| Domestic Hardwood MDF and MDF Core Melamine |
1.15 | 1.75 | 2.19 | 2.70 | 3.13 | 4.35 | 4.90 | 5.45 | |
| Medium Density Fiberboard (Langboard, Holly Hill, Plum Creek, Uniboard, etc.) |
1.10 | 1.72 | 2.16 | 2.66 | 3.20 | 4.30 | 4.85 | 5.40 | |
| Trupan Ultra Light MDF | 2.00 | 2.50 | |||||||
| Particle Board | 1.15 | 1.75 | 2.25 | 2.82 | 3.44 | 4.38 | 5.00 | 5.55 | |
| Particle Board Core Melamine and Domestic Hardwood Panels |
1.35 | 1.80 | 2.32 | 2.92 | 3.50 | 4.85 | 5.53 | 6.20 | |
| Import Hardwood VC | 0.33 | 0.63 | 0.94 | 1.22 | 1.79 | 2.16 | 2.80 | ||
| Liner Panels with Import VC | 0.52 | 0.82 | 1.13 | 1.41 | 1.98 | 2.38 | 3.00 | ||
| Fir VC Panels | 0.41 | 0.82 | 1.22 | 1.79 | 2.16 | 2.80 | |||
| Russian Birch | 0.44 | 1.04 | 1.32 | 2.06 | 2.25 | 3.02 | 4.05 | ||