The parts are hung on an overhead conveyor and the stain is then applied in a shower spray booth or with a mechanical flow coater. The stain dries very quickly. Following the stain application, the sealer coat is sprayed on with a hand-held spray gun and is allowed to flash dry for ten minutes. The finish topcoat flash dries in fifteen minutes. There is no curing aid used in the process.
All finishes are air dried within the time frames cited.
The parts are then removed from the overhead conveyor, inspected, and packed for shipping. The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments incorporate stringent air pollution prevention regulations, which are just beginning to affect American industry. These new MACT standards will impose strict controls on specific industry sectors. The wood finishing industry MACT standard requires that the materials used in finishing wood products be HAP-compliant by November 1997. The finishing materials currently used by the Woodcrest are not HAP-compliant.