Great flooring, whether solid hardwood or engineered, comes from healthy and fully mature trees. At Vermont Plank Flooring, we only work with sustainably-minded woodlot owners, often with FSC-certification, who patiently allow their trees to reach full maturity and select only the healthiest ones to harvest.
That domestic hardwood lumber is brought to our family-owned facility in southern Vermont and is ripped into wide-plank boards that meet the dimensional and grading specifications of an individual client.
Those ripped planks are then moved across our facility to the Wintersteiger, which is the machine that slices the thin lamellas from the thicker planks of lumber. The lamellas are then glued to the cabinet-grade plywood backing, and the newly engineered plank is then run through the molder, which cuts the precision tongue and groove along the long edges of the plank. The end-matching saw then adds the tongue and groove to the short ends of the plank.