Comparison

1mm vs 0.8mm Laminate: What You're Actually Choosing

Ask around the market and you'll hear that thicker means tougher. From the press side, that isn't the story: both sheets are 100% phenolic HPL to the same standard. What you're actually choosing between is a premium sheet and an everyday one — texture, design and price.

By Artis Laminates · Updated 2 July 2026

First, the myth: thicker is not more durable

Both our 1mm and 0.8mm sheets are built the same way: layers of kraft paper and a printed décor paper, impregnated with phenolic resin we make in-house, fused under heat and tonnage, and checked sheet by sheet. Both are genuine high-pressure laminates to IS:2046-1995 Type S, under the same ISI licence. Scratch, heat, stain, moisture — the documented resistances are one standard, met by both.

A wardrobe finished in 0.8mm Woodrica is not a compromise on toughness over one finished in 1mm. If someone tells you the thinner sheet will not last, they are selling you the wrong reason to spend more.

Cross-section · both sheets, magnified

Artis 1MM

1.0 mm · Premium

Woodrica & Artvio

0.8 mm · Everyday

Deeper texture press — the Synchro range — on imported décor papers.

The same design families at everyday value — for interiors and full-home budgets.

Décor paper + finish surfacePhenolic-soaked kraft core

The same build at two thicknesses: a printed décor paper and finish surface over a phenolic-soaked kraft core, fused in one press to IS:2046-1995 Type S. Durability is a tie by design — the 1MM body carries a deeper texture press and its own imported papers, not extra survival.

What the extra 0.2mm actually buys

Artis 1MM is our premium line, and the premium is real — it is just about feel and design, not survival. The thicker body carries texture more deeply: finishes sit richer under the hand, and it is where our Synchro designs live, with the surface texture pressed to follow the printed grain line for line. Run a hand across a Synchro oak and you feel the wood, not just see it.

The second thing is the paper. The 1MM line is printed on imported décor papers, picked design by design — so its catalogue carries looks you will not find repeated in every showroom. If the surface is the statement of the room, that exclusivity is part of what you are paying for.

Where the 0.8mm lines fit

Woodrica and Artvio carry the same design families — woods, marbles, solids, abstracts — at 0.8mm and a friendlier price. They are the right call for the surfaces a room does not stare at: wardrobe and cabinet interiors (usually plain colours anyway), secondary panels, and projects where the budget must stretch across every room.

For the faces a room does see, our recommendation stays the 1MM line — that is where the best papers and the deepest textures live. The 0.8mm lines are the same durable sheet to the same standard; what they give up is the premium catalogue, not the toughness.

At a glance	Artis 1MM (1.0mm)	Woodrica & Artvio (0.8mm)
Position	Premium	Everyday value
Durability	IS:2046-1995 Type S · ISI-licensed · 100% phenolic	Identical — same standard, same press
Texture	Deeper, richer finishes — home of the Synchro range	The full finish card, in the everyday body
Designs	Imported décor papers — looks you won't see everywhere	The same families: wood, marble, solid, abstract
Price	Costs more — you are paying for feel and design	Friendlier; stretches across a full home
In practice	The faces a room sees — our default recommendation	Interiors, secondary panels, full-home budgets

Durability is a tie by design — both are genuine HPL to the same IS:2046 Type S standard. The real choice is texture, design and budget.

So which do you buy?

Decide by the room, not by fear. Wherever a surface shows — the living-room feature wall, the kitchen you show people, the wardrobe that fronts the master bedroom — the 1MM line is our recommendation: deeper texture, and designs you have not already seen twice this week. Keep 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio for interiors and for stretching a full home's budget — the identical durable sheet, without the premium catalogue. Most good homes use both — and neither one wears out first.

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

No — and we make both, so we have no reason to undersell one. Both are 100% phenolic high-pressure laminates to IS:2046-1995 Type S under the same ISI licence, with the same documented resistances. The 1mm line is premium for its deeper texture and imported designs, not because the 0.8mm wears out.

Three real reasons: more material in the sheet, texture that can be pressed deeper into the thicker body — including the Synchro range, where the texture follows the printed design — and imported décor papers that keep its looks exclusive. It is a premium of feel and design, not of toughness.

The standard behind both is the same, so it is a design decision. The kitchen is usually the showpiece, so the 1MM line is our recommendation for the surfaces you see — visible faces, shutters and table tops. Step down to 0.8mm where the budget needs to stretch; the split is about design and budget, not about one sheet failing.

The 1MM line on the shutter faces — a wardrobe is the largest surface in the bedroom, and the premium papers and textures show there every day. Inside the wardrobe, where surfaces are usually plain colours, 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio does the job at everyday value. Both meet the same IS:2046 Type S standard.

Yes — the same quality. Woodrica and Artvio at 0.8mm are full high-pressure laminates made to IS:2046-1995 Type S, ISI-licensed and 100% phenolic, off the same press as the 1mm line. The catalogue is different, the standard is not.

A full 1mm (1.0mm) body — our premium tier, including the Synchro range where the design and the surface texture move together. Woodrica and Artvio are the 0.8mm lines; Fine Decor is the 0.72mm economy liner.