This document is a preliminary report summarizing the progress during the first year of a two-year project entitled “Development of a Colour Standard for the Furniture Industry”. Colorimetric measurements were taken at five furniture and furniture component manufacturers in order to assess current practices used to colour-match strips for wood panel production. Results take into consideration all the manufacturing facilities and an appendix details each participating manufacturer’s specific results, which are held in confidence and may only be provided to the manufacturer in question.
The section entitled “Work planned for the second year” presents the activities planned for the second, and final, year of the project.