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UV-CURED FINISHING WORKS FOR LANE
Citation:
Marshall, A. M. AND J. L. Fields. UV-CURED FINISHING WORKS FOR LANE. XX, 88, 90-92, 94, (1999).
Description:
The Midwest Research Institute, under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. EPA, conducted a study to identify wood furniture manufacturing facilities that had converted to low-VOC/HAP wood furniture coatings and to develop case studies for those facilities. This article addresses The Lane Co., an Altavista, VA, manufacturer of office furniture and residential casegoods, and its conversion to UV-curable coatings in 1994.
Lane's Altavista facility has two main finishing areas: Plant 2 and Plant 4. Plant 2 has a finishing line for cedar chests and a finishing line for tables. Plant 4 has a flatline finishing area for home office furniture components and casegoods.
The cedar chests and tables are finished manually with low-VOC/HAP, high-solids coatings, while the office furniture and casegood components are finished on an automated flatline using UV-cured or waterborne coatings. Plant 2 operates five days a week, two shifts per day, and Plant 4 operates four to five days per week, one shift per day. Lane hopes to expand its Plant 4 product line into areas such as hotel furniture.