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The doors have now been prepped and they're ready for a stain and a finish coat. They
have come through our prep process and they've come to our UV flat line and stain line, staged,
ready to get stained. As I stated earlier, what we want to do is we want to batch by
colors. These lines are built on efficiency. So the more that we can batch by colors the
more efficient we are running down these lines. Each one of these stacks is a different color.
We have a ten stain exchanger that we can change stains quite quickly to get into different
stains throughout a shift. On these lines we want to start with our lightest color and
work our way up to our darkest color by the end of the day. If we do that we never have
to switch out our wiping brushes. As you can see Sue is loading the stack of doors right
now. The doors are going to go through a dust collection system where they're going to get
vacuumed off, they're going to hit the spray booth, they're going to get stain applied
to one side, they're going to get three different brush, brushes or wipers and get the stain
wiped in. And then they're going to head down a long oven system which is about a seven
and a half minute ride to get the water flashed off of the coating. The coatings that we are
using here are water-based stains. The seal and top coat coatings that we are using are water-based
UVs. With those coatings that we're using, all we are flashing off is water; that's what's
going out of our stacks, that's what's going into the atmosphere, which means these products
are extremely green. Low VOCs, very much lead-compliant. The coatings that we use on these lines are
reclaimable. The coating that we're using on this line is a water-based stain. As you
can see on the belt, as it's sprayed onto the doors the belt is going to go around and
it's going to get squeegeed off. The stain is going to come back down through the reclaim
system, and ultimately get reused again which not only saves us in disposal rates, but also
saves us in the quantity of the product that we have to purchase from our suppliers.
After the stain has been applied, the door goes through a set of three wiping brushes. Essentially,
what these brushes are doing is just lightly brushing the stain into the grain area so
that you get your grain definition with a water-based stain. Doors are now coming off
of the stain line, out of the oven, completely dry, ready for their seal and top coat. The
doors will get transferred over, head to that seal and top coat line, and get their UV water-based
coating applied to them.