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.

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 0.8mm is the smart money

Woodrica and Artvio carry the same design families — woods, marbles, solids, abstracts — at 0.8mm and a friendlier price. For a full home's wardrobes, cabinets and panelling, that is usually the sensible call: the same durable sheet, a catalogue that is genuinely good-looking, and a budget that stretches across every room instead of one.

There is one practical bonus: the lighter sheet is easier to hang on tall wardrobe shutters and keeps the doors easy on their hinges.

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 a lighter 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 showpiece surfaces	Lighter on tall shutters; the workhorse everywhere

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. Where the surface is the statement — the living-room feature wall, the kitchen you show people, the wardrobe that fronts the master bedroom — the 1MM line earns its price with deeper texture and designs you have not already seen twice this week. Where you are finishing a full home's wardrobes, cabinets and panels, 0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio gives you the identical durable sheet and keeps the budget honest. 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.

Either — the standard behind both is the same. The kitchen is usually the showpiece, so many homes put the 1MM line where the eye and the hand land — the visible faces and table tops — and 0.8mm on the shutters. That split is about feel and budget, not about one sheet failing.

0.8mm Woodrica or Artvio is the usual call — the same durable HPL, lighter on tall shutters, at a friendlier price across a bedroom full of doors. Step up to the 1MM line when you want the wardrobe face itself to be the statement, with deeper texture or one of its imported designs.

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.