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Manufacturing Laminate Flooring
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" Mike how big is this plan. It's a little over a 110000 square foot enormous and it's clean and quiet and here we got some. We're and -- laminated Islamic conference -- store in Sweden yeah one of our other divisions. And what you have -- half millimeters thick piece of laminate that digital photograph of the wood that we're doing with today as though -- on top of that we've got five layers of Melamine. Get us via -- it. So it's not look at the digital photograph of way right with a laminate coating on top and then this is the core material that's our core material what we have here is very special recipe. We've got a very small type particulate when an awful lot of -- neck it was a good integrity part time groups and we won't. Ballpark anytime during its life what sort of what is used. Bomb if we have material shipped to us from Scandinavia the Bob but it's groups if it's applied here -- US involvement is. So this really is an example of globalization when you've got raw material from Scandinavia. Arriving here and died in America what is the port of Norfolk Virginia that. Again that he manufactured here. And of course everything seems to be robotics. Yes that the entire planet automated what we have it's. Cards that are run by their own small computers called PLC and each one of our process lines are also computer control. They're able to communicate together processed -- material written lines and that allows the operators to then focus on the quality they're not. Managing the machine they're able to manage a raw materials make sure that finished product is I ask Polly would make terrific let's see where that bonding takes place and right now in the -- The first -- here Bob that we have bring artist Jane then applies to free our garage and boat top and bottom board that allows our -- processes be speeded up. -- senate bring -- rollers we check in with an ultraviolet light to make sure they get a good even doubts on the board -- top and bottom. Make your window dry spots no puddles everything's nice and aid. Next that we have a -- the roller to apply Daschle live up top and bottom of the board. We've picked up feet of laminate. And bring it over and set it down on top of the vintage port. So here we have our board. With a -- on it and laminate being placed all over the next station there's the on the bottom of the board that you're putting all I see organic we're doing it very clear here. Exactly what that allows us to do is to have all four components together at this point we've got the backing paper the -- material that blue and a laminate. They're ready to go into our press. At that point they'll spend a minute or less than there at several hundred degrees of pressure and -- began their set up that blue very quickly for us. No mechanical with the using if you have friends in England. And -- what you're basically created at this point is almost like a four by eight sheet of paneling that we're making flooring here exactly so what happens next. At that point we send it -- conveyor system automatically over one of our milling line. Milling line we'll take that four by eight -- that we made and written in Manhattan at the first stage they're 24 by -- right. From there we run it in doing stripped off their ripped it down include six. Pergo plank side boards approximately four foot long -- wide. But that you're still unfinished did you got back the tongue and groove daughter right I'll the next day -- we cut the tiny groove and alongside the board. Through a moment. After that we sanded into a double header which cuts the short end of the board. From that point that good boards are sent off or packaging station the rejected boards are automatically rejected out the line and operated from. That won't get the rejected -- be recycled into the operation now we don't like our military jacket and we we send them out."
" All right now Michael looks like at the end of the trail here there's a camera looking at each and every one of these boards right. What we're doing is passing it bordered front of the camera -- measured 2000 time 2000. Right 2000 times. And that we can get a good verification make sure that vote -- and true. Are exactly right and that's critical isn't this the do it yourself product that it if it's kind -- bidding uniformly all the time. You're not gonna have success and if they -- from one line and I don't I don't match up we have -- from the west the computer -- show you here. It gives us the dimensional read out eight PNC for both the tongue and groove. The tell us the size -- shape to make your within specification."