TIFFIN, Ohio — Laminate Technologies, known to many as LamTech, is marking its 40th anniversary in 2025, and doing so with major news. It is transitioning to an employee-owned company through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). 

This strategic move, the company says, is set to enhance our company's foundation, “fostering deeper commitment from our sales, manufacturing, purchasing, administrative, and logistics teams,” said Mario Serra, sales manager. “This shift reinforces our commitment to quality, service, and innovation, as every team member has a vested interest in our success.”

Founded in Tiffin, Ohio, in 1985, Laminate Technologies is a one-source solution for customizing laminated panels, myriad substrates , specialty hardwood plywood panels, and fabricated components.

“Over the past four decades,” said Mario Serra, sales manager, “we’ve expanded our reach and capabilities, always aiming to deliver the absolute best in products and services to our valued customers.”

Laminate Technologies has more than 400,000 square feet of manufacturing and warehousing space in Tiffin, Ohio, Waco, Texas, Martinsville, Virginia, and Gallatin, Tennessee, enabling the company to serve its clients more effectively and efficiently. With this capacity, the company said it is “built to handle projects of any size—big or small. Whether you need a single custom order or large-scale production, we deliver on time, every time.”

It is not just physical space that has added to its capabilities to meet its customers’ needs, but also continual improvement in the capabilities within those facilities. In 2021, for instance, at its Martinsville plant, which it established in 2012, the company installed a new automated hardwood plywood press line. The $4-million investment allowed it to increase capacity and production to serve its East Coast customers. The Virginia facility now specializes in manufacturing hardwood plywood panels.

Increasing its product offerings has been a key to its growing success. From its roots in lamination to a full range of products, from specialty hardwood plywood to fabricated components, it has steadily expanded its product portfolio to meet diverse customer needs.

Substrate and other product options include medium density fiberboard, particleboard, Lam Grade plywood, platforms, primed plywood, UV plywood, veneer panels and platforms, laminated panel products, specialty hardwood plywood, and fabricated components. Panels come in widths of 4 and 5 feet, lengths of 5 to 16 feet, and can be laminated on one side or two sides.

Products are available with decorative top coated papers, 23 grams to 120 grams; high-quality vinyls, 2 mil to 30 mil; metalized moisture barrier films; cork, felt, polypropylene films, or polyester laminates. To see some of the range of products check out the company's interactive product viewer.

The company’s custom manufacturing capabilities enable it to supply panel products and components specifically engineered and designed to meet customer specs. “Whether your need is for laminated panels using custom printed decorative overlays, panels produced in our own hardwood plywood operation or even imported products, which meet stringent ‘Green’ standards, the company says.

In addition to its laminating capabilities, the company offers diverse fabricating capabilities including cut-to-size panels; drilling; CNC routing; tenoning; contour and straight line edge banding; T-molding; Toe notching; V-grooving/miter folding; slatwall; and private label packaging.

With its manufacturing facilities and production capabilities, Serra said the company is “strategically positioned” to effectively deliver its vast array of imported products, specialty hardwood plywood panels, custom one- or two-sided laminated products and fabricated components to its customer base across the country. 

“Our plant locations allow LamTech to offer our customers greater manufacturing flexibility, access to necessary capacities, shorter lead times and competitive pricing,” he said.