Finishing Done Right: Enjoy Less Prep + Faster Finishing with Hancock Lumber’s in-house priming, painting and staining facility!
After years of research, testing, and product development, Hancock Lumber’s brought the finishing process in-house with their new Hancock ProFinish facility located on the Casco Sawmill campus. We’ve partnered with experts to source, install, and leverage state-of-the-art technology and cutting edge science to create the right coating formulations for eastern white pine boards, for both interior and exterior uses.
Benefits of Hancock ProFinish Pine
Our team is going to get the last look at every board before it’s packaged. We’re going to control the quality of the paint and make sure that every board that’s in a pack belongs in the pack.”
–Mike shane, casco sawmill general manager
Quality Assurance
- State-of-the-art equipment
- Coatings engineered specifically for eastern white pine
- Consistent application/mil thickness of both the UV seal and water-borne primer coatings
- QA testing for various factors, including: adhesion, holdout against pitch/resin migration through the film, proper UV cure, film continuity and integrity, inter-coat adhesion of UV sealer to the primer, and stack testing
- HPF team inspects all boards throughout the process
Top Performance
- Initial acrylic sealer coat is a linkage layer with exceptional bonding properties (adhesion) between the wood and subsequent coatings, and also provides a highly moisture-resistant surface
- UV primer coat provides protection against pitch bleed from knots and resin pockets on all four sides and seals the lumber
- Final latex primer coat provides superior appearance, weather-resistance and top-coat adhesion that outperforms other primed products in the marketplace
- Three coats on face and edges work as a system for excellent durability and performance
- Rated for both interior and exterior use
The Right Partners
- Makor Group: The market-leading manufacturer of wood-finishing machinery
- Stiles Machinery: The nation’s largest team of service and support specialists for manufacturing solutions
- AkzoNobel: Bringing surfaces and finishing to life for over 200 years, they’re experts in creating performance coatings for various substrates
Customer Benefits
- Environmentally friendly, with no VOCs
- Grown, milled, and finished in Maine
- Primed face is the grade face
- Improved quality and shorter supply lead-times
- Superior coating performance
- Enhanced overall appearance on primed side
- Direct distribution throughout Maine + New Hampshire to Hancock Lumber locations and on to jobsites
