Why Do Contractors Use MDO and HDO panels?
Olympic Panel Products overlaid concrete forming panels are less expensive to use on a cost-per-pour basis than non-overlaid plywood such as BB Plyform or CDX plywood. Although the initial cost per sheet for non-overlay panels is less, these low reuse panels add time and money to projects in the long run. For example, a contractor may need to use his forming panels twenty times over several jobs. To make twenty pours, he would need to purchase only one Olympic Panel Products B-Matte™ 333 panel (at twenty pours per sheet). However, he would have to purchase three BB plyform panels (at seven pours per sheet), or five CDX panels (at four pours per sheet) to get twenty pours. As the table below shows, the cost per pour of the one B-Matte™ panel needed for twenty pours is just 31% of the cost of the five CDX panels required. Similarly, the cost of the one Olympic Panel Products Classic HDO panel needed for forty reuses is just 20% of the ten CDX panels needed for the same number of pours, a
