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>> I have built the base units for my study out of 18mm ply
>> and when I went to fit them today one of the sides has
>> bowed (i.e. top and bottom are fine but the centre goes
>> into the cupboard more than it should - if you see what
>> I mean). There is another cupboard next to this side
>> (which is fine) so was wondering how best to connect
>> the 2 together to straighten the dodgy one rather than
>> pull the good one into the bowed shape?
>
> There are things often called barrel bolts or furniture bolts
> that can be used to pull the two vertical sides together and
> which have heads which don?t intrude into the body
> of the base units.
>
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This is the standard (and very effective) way to connect together individual kitchen units. But do I take it from the OP's description that these units are backless? It's normal to have a back on units like this because this provides bracing to prevent it going into a parallelogram, if you see what I mean. So that should also stop bowing, at least at the back.
How much is this bow? 18mm ply does not normally bow very much. If it is just a millimetre or two then these bolts should sort it out fine.