"But plywood is made out of veneer sheets that have been turned on a giant lathe." Ditto CLT. My class was making this almost 25 years ago back in high school

"But plywood is made out of veneer sheets that have been turned on a giant lathe." Ditto CLT. My class was making this almost 25 years ago back in high school wood shop, we just called it "Thick ply" and we primarily used it back then for constructing ultra-solid subwoofer boxes for vehicles. The lamellae were cut to 1/4" thick sheets on a lathe (they do make saw-based lathes, we had two in wood shop, one industrial one, one made out of a table saw with jigs for making dowels and such) planed, cut, oriented/glued/layered, veneer layer applied, sanded, then a final heat treating process, and done.