An insight into the manufacturing of compact laminates
Laminates are extensively used as surface materials. While high pressure laminate or HPL are commonly used by Toilet Cubicle & Lockers Manufacture rs , low-pressure melamine laminates are generally used for home furniture. In addition to these two varieties, there is a third product called compact laminates, which is used just as widely. Compact laminates are extremely hardwearing, and their self supporting feature makes them ideal for use in a wide range of interior applications. Sheets of kraft paper are impregnated with water-based phenolic resin and decorative surface papers are saturated with water-based melamine resin to manufacture compact laminates. These sheets are ideally dried individually in an industrial oven, and subsequently stacked on top of each other, with decorative layers on the top and bottom and multiple layers of kraft paper in the middle. These stacks are then pressed at a high temperature, so that the layers permanently fuse in a single panel....