Kitchen Cabinets:

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With the demand for cheaper building materials and the rapid housing
boom a couple of years back, many kitchen cabinet manufacturers
started looking overseas for a way to make a cheaper kitchen cabinet.
In order to conform to the KCMA standards (Kitchen Cabinet
Manufacturers Association), they required the kitchen cabinet
manufacturing plants overseas to increase the quality of the materials
they used and increase the durability of the kitchen cabinets.

Discount kitchen cabinets or RTA Kitchen Cabinets up until this time
had been made of fiberboard or particleboard, with staples or dowels
holding the cabinets together. Many of the cheap kitchen cabinets at
that time had a veneer surface that would warp or buckle when it came
in contact with too much water. Because of these inferior features,
they didn't compare to the cabinets that were being manufactured in
the U.S.