Engineered Flooring Manufacturing Process

In the flooring market, solid wood flooring and laminate floor are the main choices, laminate flooring is cheap and affordable, wood flooring is elegant and beautiful. In the nearly years, engineered flooring comes out and occupies the market fast because it has the solid wood as face layer, also solves the problems of bending, difficult maintenance. Now, we would like to show you the manufacturing process of this new flooring and why it is so good than other 2 floorings.

• Step 1: Selection of logs

  Good quality log can produce good quality wood flooring, wood quality is essential on the quality of the floor. We make quality control checks from the beginning of the selection of logs, wood is a good basis for producing high-quality flooring.

  

  Wood logs

• Step 2: Slicing logs into veneer

  This process used to manufacture engineered flooring core and substrate, the substrate quality is very important for the flooring, especially on the stability. The rotary cut veneer is 1.5mm thickness and it need get dry after cutting.

  

  Rotary cutting veneers

• Step 3: Separation of core layer

  In order to ensure the quality of each piece of flooring, we need select uniform thickness, no defects, no broken boards as the substrate.

• Step 4: Gluing core boards

  Gluing will be done by professional equipments which can ensure gluing uniformity, improve efficiency. The 8-10 layers of thin wood plank orderly cross layered, bonded together, can change the direction of extension of the original wood fiber. It is this step, thoroughly improved solid wood swelling shrinkage limitations.

  

  Gluing wood planks together

• Step 5: Pressing core

  Hot pressing is an important process for engineered flooring and it is directly related to the quality of the floor. Bothbest used advanced hot-pressing equipment, full monitoring in production process, therefore product quality is more stable.

  

  Planks ready for pressing

• Step 6: Sanding substrate

  We sand the surface and bottom of substrate at accurate thickness to ensure board flatness and surface smoothness, thereby enhancing the accuracy of the flooring, and providing a reliable warranty for pressing the veneer of rare wood species on the substrate.

  

  Sanding the substrate

• Step 7: Conditioning of substrate

  After the initial processing is completed, it will be careful hand sorting to remove unqualified products. After a high temperature and pressure, a larger substrate stress is inside of the substate, so it needs a balance for 15 to 20 days to release of this internal stress, making the substrate balance and stability.

  

  Conditioning room

• Step 8: Selection of wood veneer

  Engineered flooring is installed in dry area as the heating floor, so the dimension stability is very critical. In order to prevent cracking problems in the dry season, engineered flooring surface is the high quality, rare wood species and low moisture content wood veneers.

• Step 9: Constructing the flooring board

  We glued the veneers with environmentally friendly adhesive on the substrate and press it to get the flooring plank.

  

  Laying veneers on substrate

  

  Hot pressing

• Step 10: Conditioning flooring plank

  Substrate was pressed with veneer, and had a greater internal stress again, so the flooring planks need stay in the conditioning room for 20 days and the conditioning room is constant temperature and humidity which ensure more stable quality of the floor.

• Step 11: Tongue and Groove

  After conditioning, the plank will be ready for Tongue and Groove. The accuracy of milling will decide the quality of flooring as well. Bothbest used the Homag machine which was imported from Germany and is the number 1 milling machine in the flooring industry.

• Step 12: Coating and package

  After tongue and groove, flooring need be coated as the final process. The coating is 8 layers of primer and 4 layers of sealer. The coating is Klumpp and Treffert, top quality and anti-scratch. After that, packages is on the end of the production process.

  

  Coating the planks

  

  Packed flooring ready for delivery