As I mentioned in my last post, the manufacturing process of laminate flooring involves numerous steps.  In the first video, you  get to see the paper impregnating process. This second video shows a very cool feature on the newer generation of laminate flooring: narrow boards and bevel edging.

The video I’ve included in this post is of me in a Chinese laminate floor factory trying to show the process they use to make a bevel edge look real. They do this in two ways:

1. They mold the top paper layer around the edges or,
2. They adhere a thin strip of paper that looks complementary to the top paper to give the consistent look a real hardwood floor would have.

Both styles of bevel look great, but they have different costs associated with them. I believe the molded bevel edge is superior to the separate paper strip, but the molding process is also a fair bit more expensive (and not all factories have the technology to do it).

This shows the first of the two techniques that factories use to give the bevel edging a natural look.

Related posts:

1. Inside A Laminate Flooring Factory, Part 3
2. Inside a Laminate Flooring Factory, Part 1
3. How Laminate Flooring Has Evolved So Far
4. Inside a Flooring Warehouse
5. BuildDirect at Domotex Flooring Show in Hanover Germany