Pura Vita Real Wood Veneer Panel for Show-Face Casework
The SALT International Pura Vita PVFN24 Frassino Nero is a prefinished real wood veneer decorative panel graded A-Grade Front with B-Grade Back, sized at 49 inches by 120 inches in a 19 mm thickness. The Black Ash finish delivers the linear grain and dark, cool tone of ash veneer straight off the sheet, ready for cutting and edgebanding without any additional finishing step.
Key Features
- 13-hour water-resistant core — a vendor test result, not a wet-area rating, and useful where spills and humidity are routine.
- Protective peel coat — transparent over the A face, blue transparent over the B face, so the two are told apart before it comes off.
- Random or plank match — the veneer layup technique, which decides how the grain repeats across the sheet.
- Real wood veneer face brings genuine grain character and natural variation that no printed surface can replicate.
- A-Grade Front with B-Grade Back construction means the show face is held to the tighter appearance grade, and the back is real wood to a looser standard.
- 49 inch by 120 inch nominal sheet size provides a tall, wide panel suited to full-height door and case components.
- 19 mm thickness works directly with standard confirmat fasteners and pairs with 23 mm ABS edgebanding on a square edge.
- Frassino Nero Black Ash finish carries a cool, dark linear grain that reads clearly across a full door face or a long shelf run.
- Prefinished surface arrives ready to install, eliminating on-site coating and dry time.
Where This Panel Works
Frassino Nero suits any project where a dark, straight-grained wood face is the design anchor. A tall wardrobe or a floor-to-ceiling bookcase built from this panel presents a consistent linear figure across every visible component. Kitchen upper cabinets in Black Ash read cleanly under task lighting because the straight ash grain does not compete with the hardware or the countertop material. The 49 by 120 inch sheet accommodates full-height panels with minimal waste on standard residential and commercial case heights, and the two-foot width lays out efficiently against typical door and end-panel widths. For open shelving or a room divider where a single face shows, the A/B grade pair is exactly right: the A-grade face faces out, and the B-grade back stays concealed.
Construction and Finish
Pura Vita is SALT International's prefinished real wood veneer panel program. The face is genuine ash veneer — not a printed film, not a thermally fused laminate — so grain direction, pore depth, and tone shift naturally across sheets. That variation is the material; it is what distinguishes a real wood panel from a reproduction. The Black Ash finish on PVFN24 processes the ash veneer to a dark, even tone while keeping the open grain structure intact. The prefinished surface is ready for immediate installation after cutting and edgebanding, with no field sanding or coating required. Matching ABS edgebanding is available in this color to close cut edges so face and edge read as one surface.
Who Specifies This Panel
Cabinet shops producing contemporary residential millwork reach for Pura Vita when the design calls for a real wood face and a tight delivery schedule — the prefinished surface removes the finishing trade from the critical path. Interior designers specifying hotel guest rooms, high-end retail fixtures, or residential kitchen suites use this color where a dark ash face anchors the palette without the warmth of walnut or the heaviness of wenge. Contractors handling commercial fit-out specify the 19 mm thickness because it lands on standard hardware and fastener dimensions without shimming or adaptation. The A/B grade pair keeps material cost appropriate for single-face applications while maintaining the genuine wood surface a specification or a client is expecting.
Is this panel real wood veneer or a printed simulation?
This is genuine real wood veneer — ash sliced and applied as the face, not a printed or foil surface. Grain, color, and pore depth come from the actual wood, which means natural variation across sheets is inherent and expected.
What does A-Grade Front with B-Grade Back mean in practical terms?
The A-grade designation means the show face is selected and laid up to the tighter appearance standard for color consistency, grain match, and permissible natural character. The B-grade back is still real ash veneer, held to a looser standard. Plan the layout so the A face is the one that shows.
Is matching edgebanding available for Frassino Nero?
Yes. Matching ABS edgebanding is available in this color through the Pura Vita program, so cut edges can be closed in the same decor as the face.
Does this panel need to be finished before installation?
No. The surface arrives prefinished. Cut it to size, apply your edgebanding, and the panel is ready to install. There is no field sanding, staining, or coating step.
Is matching HPL available to extend this color onto a countertop or a worksurface?
Matching HPL is not part of the Pura Vita program. If you need to carry the color onto a high-wear horizontal surface, a coordinating high-pressure laminate from another source would need to be specified separately.
A Real Wood Face, Ready When the Cabinet Is
Frassino Nero in the Pura Vita A/B panel delivers a genuine ash veneer face at 19 mm, prefinished and sized for productive cutting — so the real wood look ships with the job instead of waiting on the finishing schedule.
