Site
visit:
Custom
Desk
951
Apollo
Road
Eagan,
MN
55121­
2246
Participants:
Douglas
C.
Hubbard
 
President
Teena
Wooten­
EPA
OSW
Jim
O'Leary­
EPA­
OSW
Nancy
Ellefson­
MN
Pollution
Control
Agency
Date:
June
13,
2006
Jim
O'Leary
and
Teena
Wooten
with
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency's
Office
of
Solid
Waste
and
Nancy
Ellefson
with
the
Minnesota
Pollution
Control
Agency
toured
the
Custom
Desk
facility
in
Eagan,
MN
on
May
10,
2006.
The
facility
manufactures
office
furniture­
private
and
executive.
The
rags
are
used
towels
from
hotels
that
Custom
Desk
cuts
into
pieces.
Rags
are
used
for
staining
the
furniture
and
when
used
are
sent
to
a
laundry
for
cleaning.
The
rags
are
not
used
to
apply
solvent
to
the
furniture.

Custom
Desk
uses
a
solvent
based
blend
to
clean
its
spray
guns
in
a
fully
contained
spray
gun
cleaning
machine.
All
solvents
except
for
the
gun
cleaning
operations
were
eliminated
approximately
five
years
ago.
Occasionally
a
limited
amount
of
solvent
is
used
to
reduce
the
viscosity
of
the
lacquer
topcoat
when
high
humidity
in
low
dew
point
conditions
occurs.
