Quality products & Commitment to Integrity in Manufacturing

Darlington Veneer Co., a third generation family-owned company, is one of the oldest and most successful manufacturers of quality hardwood plywood products in the nation. Its history goes back over 90 years when Sherman Ramsey founded the company in Darlington, South Carolina, on its present plant site. Darlington Veneer Co., despite wars, a depression, and several recessions has endured and prospered.

Darlington Veneer's recent partnership with C.H. Briggs allows the customers' needs to be met with a wide variety of Permawood® Hardwood Plywood products. These include most domestic and many imported species of wood veneers with a range of cores in a choice of thicknesses and in lengths of six to twelve feet. These panels are available in the standard four foot widths, as well as, certain five foot widths.

Concern for quality is consistently present in Darlington Veneer's manufacturing process. From the initial selection of raw materials to the finished product, standards are set for beauty, strength, and durability.  Processing with the goal of long life for the product, the veneers are finished when drying and curing conditions are optimum. Darlington's veneers are cut to a thickness beyond industry requirements, ensuring the beauty of your work through generations. Timber land is monitored for environmental impact and plant health to insure reforestation. The resulting products serve many industries including kitchen cabinet manufacturers, closet manufacturers, furniture plants, and mill work fabricators. Customers have grown accustomed to rely on their quality products and knowledgeable customer service.

1918 - Darlington Veneer Company opens as a single ply veneer mill with 15 employees. Logs are purchased from local farmers are converted on a rotary lathe and Radio Corp. of America/Victor Talking Machines is one of their first customers.

1923 - Mechanical advancements increase quality and Ford Motor Company chooses Darlington for their vehicle detailing.

1930 - Veneer furniture is fashionable and the business responds. Lids for cigar boxes for American Tobacco Company are a staple and creating stock panels for the building trade begins.

1941 - Darlington is called on for the war effort. Plywood is shipped by carload over the next several years for the building of Liberty ships!

1943 - Darlington is awarded the Army-Navy "E" Award for Excellence in the war effort.

1946 - After the war and with machinery available again, complete modernization of the plant takes place and building trades flourish.

1950 - Darlington aquires the trade name Perma-Wood and it's the beginning of V groove paneling with millions of homeowners choosing this style.

1955 - Modernization continues; pre-finished panels and country-wide shipping boosts sales.  There are now 200 employees on the payroll, purchasing of timber land begins and new species are acquired.  Darlington emerges as a premier supplier to builders, architects, and craftsmen across the nation.

Today - Darlington Veneer continues prooving they are a longstanding leader in quality products, in environmental safety and conservation.  

For more information about Darlington Veneer, visit their website at http://www.darlingtonveneer.com/