Finished Lumber Products-Beverly West Virginia

Today we toured two companies that end the process of manufacturing the we started yesterday. We started  the day at Colonial Millwork and then toured the plant for Armstrong Flooring, both in Beverly, West Virginia. Both factories proved to be technological with the uses of computers, lasers and automated processes. But, every piece of lumber is touched by human hands at each step in the process of producing wood products. It is still the human eye that selects, grades and does quality checks on each piece of wood from rough state through finished product.

Lumber ready to be processed.

Wood that is not suitable for finishing
is turned into sawdust and then either used
to heat kilns or sold to other companies
for use in products such as Hamer's Hot Ones.

CNC machines router out what will become
a counter support at Colonial.

Our tour guide shows the bracket that was
just cut by the CNC machine.

This is a cutting wheel with three
knives to cut the profile of a piece
of trim. This particular knife pattern
will cut two pieces of quarter round.

As the millwork is finished,
UV light is used to bake the
finish on quickly.

Finished wood ready for
packaging and selling.

This is a picture showing the
products that Colonial
produces.

One of Colonial's customers
is Armstrong. They produce
some of the finished millwork
that Armstrong uses to
match and compliment its
flooring such as baseboards
and quarter round.