Container Flooring Plywood
IICL TB-001 28 mm container flooring, milled for India's container belt.
Container flooring is its own animal. The board has to take a forklift, an ISO impact load, salt air and twenty-plus years of leasing cycles — inside a 19-ply, 28 mm sandwich the IICL has standardised globally. Our boards are IICL TB-001 compliant: 19 hardwood plies plus two face veneers, phenol-formaldehyde bonded, 28 mm ±1 mm, 2400 × 1160 mm or 2440 × 1220 mm, 700–800 kg/m³ density, film-faced one side, sealed underside. India's container belt is also getting more interesting — Bhavnagar is now a designated Container Manufacturing Hub, and the February 2026 CMAS scheme (roughly ₹10,000 cr / 5 years) is sized to push domestic capacity toward a million TEUs a year. Domestic TB-001 flooring is part of that ramp; we want to be on the short list.
Specification
The spec sheet, in full.
Every board pressed for shipping-container floors — grade, glue line and tolerances held across the run.
| Product | Container flooring plywood (apitong / keruing face) |
|---|---|
| Standard | IICL TB-001 (Institute of International Container Lessors) |
| Thickness | 28 mm (±0.5 mm) — 21 / 27 / 30 mm on request |
| Panel size | 2440 × 1220 mm; 2400 × 1160 mm |
| Construction | Full hardwood core (keruing / apitong / mixed tropical hardwood) |
| Density | 700–800 kg/m³ |
| Bonding | Phenol-formaldehyde, WBP — 100% waterproof glue line |
| Surface | Phenolic film both faces; anti-slip wire-mesh pattern one side |
| Machining | Tongue-and-groove, bevel edge, or drilled to your drawing |
| Moisture content | < 14% |
| Minimum order | One container load (FCL), FOB Cochin Port |
| Lead time | Confirmed at quotation |
Container floor panels are manufactured to your repair-line or new-build drawing. Send dimensions, groove profile and volume for a written quote.
Why this board
Built for the one surface that takes the whole load.
IICL-grade, every press
Pressed and checked to IICL TB-001 — the grade container lines and CSC repairers ask for by name.
Low thickness variation
Tight tolerance on a 28 mm board, so fitters drop it into the cross-members without shimming or planing.
Loaded from Cochin Port
FOB Cochin and Vallarpadam ICTT, paperwork ready when the container leaves — to the Gulf, Africa and Southeast Asia.
Questions buyers ask
Container flooring plywood, answered.
What is container flooring plywood?
It is a high-density hardwood plywood, usually 28 mm thick, that forms the structural floor of a shipping container. It carries the full cargo load and a moving forklift, so it must meet the IICL TB-001 standard for container floorboards.
What standard does it follow?
IICL TB-001, issued by the Institute of International Container Lessors. It sets the bending strength, screw-holding, glue-bond and thickness tolerance a board must pass to be fitted as a container floor.
What thickness and panel size do you supply?
The standard is 28 mm at 2440 × 1220 mm (also 2400 × 1160 mm). We also press 21, 27 and 30 mm, with tongue-and-groove or bevel edges cut to your drawing.
What timber is the core?
A full hardwood core — keruing / apitong or equivalent dense tropical hardwood — bonded with phenol-formaldehyde (WBP) for a 100% waterproof glue line and a density of 700–800 kg/m³.
How is it different from shuttering plywood?
Shuttering plywood is film-faced formwork for concrete. Container flooring is denser, thicker, anti-slip and graded to IICL TB-001 to take rolling cargo loads — a different board for a different job.
Can you export it, and what is the minimum order?
Yes. We supply container flooring plywood FOB Cochin in full container loads, with export documentation ready at dispatch. Send your dimensions and volume and the desk replies with a written quote within one business day.
Container flooring plywood
Send the drawing. Get a number, not a brochure.
Tell us thickness, groove profile, volume and destination port. The export desk replies within one business day with a written quote.