How to Make Wood Crown Moulding? Complete Production Process & Wood Moulder Solution

Wood Crown Moulding is one kind of special decorative profile for room, which is usually installed on the connection place between the wall and ceiling position so as to add the 3D sense of building room and profile appearance.

In European and USA decorative markets, crown moulding (crown molding called in USA) is very common seen architectural millwork, which is widely used in many fields such as:

• Luxury Homes
• Villas
• Hotels
• Commercial Interior
• Furniture & Door Components

The most traditional wood crown moldings adopts the natural raw material for process such as:

• Pine
• Oak
• Maple
• Poplar
• Walnut

According the different final applications, wood crown moulding can be divided into:

Solid Wood Crown Moulding
Finger Joint Crown Moulding
Laminated Wood Crown Moulding
MDF Crown Moulding

Between them, the most common is the way of Finger Joint Wood + Four Side Planer Moulder Production due to this method can effectively reduce the raw material waste as well as improve the working efficiency.

Residential Interior Decoration

This is the most application area of crown moulding.

Common seen positions:

• Living Room Ceiling
• Bedroom
• Dining Room
• Hallway

For the crowning moulding line can be customized as the hidden style. And the position is suitable for:

• Wall surface with the ceiling sealing place
• Decorative edge
• Cultural Transparent area

Besides, it can improve the whole design room space:

• Superior effect
• Level appearance
• Decorative effect

Luxury Villa and Hotel Projects

The European and American building style such as:

• Colonial Style
• Classic Style
• European Interior Style

This has use massive quantity of wood crown moldings including the Decorative Wood Profiles

This projects often has the requirements of:

• High precision sizes
• Massive stable supply
• Multiple complex profiles

So it needs more higher industrial wood moulder machine to finish this projects.

Pine Wood

Pine wood is most commonly used materials in woodworking machinery for producing wood crown mouldings. The advantages of this materials is as below:

• Stable price
• Easy operating
• Suitable For mass production
• Easy to paint spraying on the surface

It is suitable for produce the paint grade crown moulding.

Oak Wood

Oak wood is usually used for premium crown moulding, the features is as below:

• Beautiful wood textile
• High strength
• Natural effect makes good quality

It is fit for high end resident and warehouse decorative profilings.

Maple and Walnut

These kinds of materials below high value solid wood with expensive price.

Features at:

Complex textile on the surface and high effect on decorative profilings, which is good at water based oil paint to protect the natural textile of itself.

Wood Crown Moulding Whole Production Process Line

According to the raw material and final product positioning, there are different producing lines. While the industrial production line includes two ways:

Production Method 1

Solid Wood Crown Moulding Production

This is fit for high end material such as  Oak, Walnut, Maple, etc.

Process:

Log
↓
Sawing
↓
Rough Lumber
↓
Kiln Drying
↓
Dimension Cutting
↓
Four Side Planer Moulder
↓
Profile Moulding
↓
Sanding
↓
Painting / Coating
↓
Finished Crown Moulding

Production Method 2

Finger Joint Crown Moulding Production

This is the more common production line with the process flow as below:

Raw Timber
↓
Cutting
↓
Wood Drying
↓
Finger Jointing
↓
Gluing & Pressing
↓
Laminated Wood Board
↓
CNC Cutting
↓
Four Side Planer Moulder
↓
Sanding
↓
Painting
↓
Finished Product

The feature 2 has the advantages of

• Improving wood yield
• Reducing produce cost
• Improve the size stability
• Suitable For mass order request

Step 1: Raw Wood Processing

If the raw material is the wood log material, it will first through the log multi rip saw into rough lumber such as

Log Wood

↓

Square Wood

↓

Wood Plank

And then entering into the Wood Drying Process

Step 2: Wood Drying

Wood kiln drying process is the important step for the wood crown moulding processing line.

The reason is that the natural wood material has amount of moisture, if it is not sufficient dried, it may occur

• Warping
• Cracking
• Dimension Changed

The room used wood products should contain the water containment to a stable moisture ratio. The dried wood has more stable sizes and it is convenient for:

• Cutting
• Finger Joint
• Moulding

Step 3：Wood Cutting and Sizing

The dried wood needs to be produced into proper sizes for products.

Common equipments includes:

Cross Cut Saw
CNC Panel Saw

The function is turning wood into standard length, width, thickness. More info can be found in CNC Panel Saw in our website.

Step 4: Finger Jointing

For pine and poplar material, it is often used the wood finger joint machine for jointing into wood sticks.

The process may remove the wood barks, wood defects, leaking areas on wood, and then through wood tooth shape connection. And connect the short material into long sizes (often fixed length such as 2m or 3m long, can be customized length.)

The advantages of wood finger joint machine is:

Reduce the waste

Improve the utilization

Ensure stability for longer size

Step 5: Laminating and Panel Making

Some part of Crown Moulding needs more wide size. So it needs the hf high frequency wood board jointing with the wood gluing to press into laminated wood jointing board.

The process flow is as flow:

Multiple long sticks

↓

Gluing

↓

Pressure Pressing

↓

Forming stable wood joining board

Step 6: CNC Cutting

For the ultra width panel board, it needs the CNC PANEL SAW to process the width, thickness and length to ensure the same sizes on each side of the six sides of wood workpiece itself before entering into the wood moulder machine.

Step 7：Four Side Planer Moulder

This is the core step of wood crown moulding. Four side planer moulder is one kind of wood four side planing industrial equipment for four sides by multiple spindle at one pass process:

It can simultaneously process:

• Top Surface
• Bottom Surface
• Left Side
• Right Side

It can achieve:

• Thickness Planing
• Width Sizing
• Grooving
• Profile Moulding

The wood is fed into

↓

Feeding System

↓

Bottom Shaft Moulder Planing

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Left and Right Axis Saw Blade For Molding Sides Surface

↓

Top for wood crown moulding profile

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Final product discharge

It is under the methods by changing Profile Knives that can produce some kinds of modles below:

• Crown Moulding
• Baseboard
• Door Frame
• Window Trim
• Flooring Profile

High Production Efficiency

Traditional processing may require:

• Multiple devices
• Multiple adjustments

Four-sided planer has the features of:

• Multiple-sided machining in a single feeding operation.
• High Accuracy (High Dimensional Precision)
• Crown Line Installation Requirements:
• Aligned in the length direction
• Section stability

Four-sided planer can guarantee:

• All products in the batch have uniform dimensions.
• Custom Profiles
• Quick replacing the tool spindle
• Quick switching is possible
• Different crown line designs

The surface requires further processing.
Through the Wide Belt Sander, it can get better improvement at:

• Surface Smoothness
• Painting Quality

Recommend Products:
ELASN Wide Belt Sander

Finally it will enter the wood spray painting machine, according to the different requirements it can adopts:

• Primer coating
• Color painting
• UV coating

Product Suggetions:

ELASN Spray Painting Machine

Raw Wood

↓

Cutting

↓

Drying

↓

Finger Joint

↓

Laminating

↓

CNC Cutting

↓

Four Side Planer Moulder

↓

Sanding

↓

Spray Painting

↓

Finished Wood Crown Moulding

Regarding the whole production:
Wood Crown Moulding (Wooden Crown Line)
For the manufacturers, the core equipment is not a single machine, but a complete processing solution.
ELASN can provide:

• Four Side Planer Moulder (Four-sided Planing Machine)
• Wood Planer Machine (Woodworking Planing Machine)
• Wide Belt Sander (Wide Belt Sanding Machine)
• Spray Painting Machine (Automatic Spraying Equipment)

Elasn can help wood processing enterprises achieve:
From raw material processing to the final output of wooden line decoration products.