Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What are Moldwood's® furniture components made of?

A: Moldwood's furniture components are made of southern pine planer mill shavings and urea formaldehyde resins.

Q: How are Moldwood's furniture components made?

A: Southern Pine planer mill shavings are trucked in to our plant in York, AL. The trailer is hoisted and the shavings are conveyed to a hammer mill. The shavings are sized and classified then conveyed to and pass through a dryer. The dried chips are stored until needed. When needed the chips are conveyed to mixers where the resins are introduced and blended. The mix is then conveyed to loading stations to be fed into individual molds. The molds, customer owned, are machined steel molds that are heated with electric rods. The mold is closed with hydraulic rams and the mix or furnish is held at the desired thickness until the resins have set. The mold then opens and the part is extracted.

Q: What are some advantages that Moldwood's components offer as compared to other products used in furniture production?

A: Specifically, Moldwood® offers advantages in design, product cost, reliability, consistency, tooling cost, and turn around time.

Our manufacturing process enables us to offer you a wide range of complex shapes to meet your needs.

Our ready-to-use components can reduce or eliminate labor-intensive production steps, expensive machinery, and material waste.

Q: What are some of the characteristics of Moldwood's components?

A: Moldwood's components are strong in that they are very rigid. This makes for a part that is extremely stable.

In the design phase there are numerous opportunities that allow for flat surfaces or
landings to be incorporated in the molding cycle. This allows for attachment to controls without needing to use spacers. Also holes can be molded in, thus eliminating the need for drilling.

Because the parts are made in steel molds they are consistent part after part, shipment after shipment.

Q: How strong are Moldwood's components?

A: All of our molded furniture components are tested to BIFMA standards and/or customer standards which exceed BIFMA standards. All of our parts exceed the test standards. Continuous lab tests and years of field performance have proven that Moldwood components are strong, durable, and dimensionally stable.

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