COATINGS FOR MILLWORK COMPONENTS - Kop …

Alan S. Ross, Vice President/Technical Director, Kop-Coat, Inc. The MILLWORK market has shown surprising resiliency in the past two years. However, the decline in the use of wood has led to a shrinking market for COATINGS . The term MILLWORK is often used quite broadly to define a wide variety of manufactured wood COMPONENTS used in construction including windows, doors, molding, skylights, etc. However, this article focuses on factory-applied COATINGS used over residential windows and doors. Historically, the vast majority of window frames were made entirely of wood. Metal window frames began to appear in the 1930 s, and vinyl windows have captured a growing share of the residential MILLWORK market since their introduction in the 1980 s. COATINGS are used over some metal COMPONENTS , but their main application is on wood windows and doors. The main types of COATINGS used in this market are water repellent preservative pretreatments, primers and topcoats.

Alan S. Ross, Vice President/Technical Director, Kop-Coat, Inc. The millwork market has shown surprising resiliency in the past two years. However,

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