LINEA - ENGINEERED VENEER FROM DANZER

Consistent appearance and quality

Linea offers the natural elegance of wood without disruptive growth features, color differences or irregular grains. Linea is consistently attractive, making it ideal for high-quality design projects.

Linea is particularly impressive in large-scale projects or in industrial applications thanks to its consistent quality, which endures over many years: every delivery meets the exact same visual and quality standards. Customers can rely on Linea for their project planning. Standardized dimensions enable exact calculations and minimize waste.

Patented manufacturing process

Veneer sheets made from 100% pure wood are layered in a specially developed, patented process and then sliced. The result is a naturally uniform, striped veneer with a consistent appearance, color and quality.

Genuine Wood for Truly Elegant Design: Beautiful Look, Greater Yield

• Desired rift cut look: Rift cut substitution available in volumes that reduce pressure on valuable natural resources
• The beauty of wood: A naturally rich look with incredible depth and elegance, gloss level and texture

• Industrial precision: Standardized dimensions for easier planning, calculation and processing, and less waste

Designed by Nature, Not Chemistry: Natural Beauty, Eco-Friendly

• Ahead of the curve: Huge variety of species, any look possible, target every design trend
• A natural, sustainable product: Using hardwood sustainably, ensuring maximum utilization of a valuable natural resource
• Safe and reliable: Free from formaldehyde and ideal for sensitive applications such as aircraft or automotive construction

Real Wood Without the Worries: Natural Materials, Specification Ready

• Get what you expect: Every project retains the same look with Linea’s consistent finish
• Consistent quality: With less blemishes than reconstituted or natural veneer. The result: happier customers and less claims

Predictable Yield Reduces Risk and Cost: Consistent Quality, Continuous Supply

• Easy processing: fixed dimensions, consistent finish and high deliverability
• Always there when you need it: Our continuous supply allowing you to hold lower stock levels with confidence

Linea in the VW Tiguan

With the decision to integrate real wood into the VW Tiguan 2025 interior, Volkswagen wanted to "move away from the industrial and artificial aesthetics that prevail in the automotive industry", says head designer Paulina Zamudio. Real materials replace imitations to create a natural and authentic ambience.

Materials used in the automotive industry must meet particularly high standards. Here too, the exceptional qualities of Linea veneer made it the obvious winner - meeting stringent safety regulations and conforming with lightfastness, stability during prolonged sunlight exposure, and alternating temperatures. Linea delivers consistent quality and appearance over the entire service life of the vehicle.

Three reasons why Volkswagen chose Linea

• Linea is available in consistently high and uniform quality over many years.
• Danzer provides certified wood and a transparent production chain, ensuring responsible use of the renewable raw material.
• Danzer has over 15 years of experience in the supply of engineered veneers for the automotive market.

A successful start

"A car not only has to fulfill a function but must also give its owner pleasure for many years when they get behind the wheel. With LINEA's premium natural appearance, we are sure of this," says Paulina Zamudio.

Since its market launch in November 2024, the new VW Tiguan has received much praise, not least for its interior design. The use of genuine American walnut veneer for the wing has been highlighted in many reviews, underlining the premium feel and high-quality finish of the vehicle.

Maschmeier Objekteinrichtungen has been working on behalf of the Merkur Group for almost two decades. Managing Director Marc Schöne understands his client’s high standards only too well: "For such a high-quality design, real wood was the only choice." The client quickly opted for a dark, warm walnut tone.

Ellipses are a recurring design element in the Merkur Spielbank Monheim. These impressive 3D features were also part of the wall design in the classic gaming area - at the request of Merkur architect Tanja Strötker.

Appearing in three different sizes, the 3D ellipses create texture and visual highlights across the veneered paneling. However, the distribution of these shapes across the wall also posed the challenge of how to maintain a smooth appearance of the veneer across the seams. It was impossible to produce a single veneer panel for this wall size, so instead of using adhesive to attach the ellipses to the wall, the experts decided to mill the ellipses five millimeters deep into the panels - like puzzle pieces.

Linea in 3D veneer: The perfect solution

Working with Linea to create both the wall and the 3D ellipses solved several challenges for the designers:

• Compared to conventional veneer, Linea always delivers uniform high quality - even on large surfaces such as in the Merkur Spielbank. This made it possible to create a wall with consistency of color and texture.
• Danzer can transform almost any veneer into 3D veneer. After the raw veneer has undergone a special 3D process, it is particularly malleable – making it the perfect solution for the double-curved ellipses.
• With Linea, the Danzer team was also able to guarantee uniformity across the entire wall, as the Linea veneer was applicable anywhere on the wall. Correct alignment of the ellipses resulted in a smooth, continuous pattern.

Close cooperation with Danzer

Maschmeier provided Danzer with three-dimensional, MDF ellipses that had been created in CAD and milled on a CNC machine. The veneer pattern was drawn onto these still "bare" ellipses. For cutting out, the Danzer team projected the patterns onto the Linea veneer with a laser, so that the lines on the ellipse would correspond exactly to those on the wall. Danzer then applied the veneer to the molds with vacuum pressing technology. Before mounting, the ellipses were painted and finished at Maschmeier.