Thorndown add two new products to their paint collection. To compliment their high-performing Wood Paint they have added a Wood Preserver and Stain Blocking Primer, offering a full timber treatment package for home consumer, trade, industrial, wholesale, and dropship customers. As with their wood paint, the wood preserver and stain blocking primer are both water-based, […]Read More

Members of the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) are on a mission to grow the demand for preservative-treated wood. At the heart of this mission is a major quality initiative to reassure buyers that the performance of treated wood products can be trusted. To ensure the trust-building could be achieved consistently TTF members voted to make […]Read More

The term ‘Tanalised Timber’ has become synonymous with treated timber across the UK. One of the most established global wood preservative brands is Tanalith® E and this is where the term ‘Tanalised Timber’ originates from. This year marks 30 years of the proven performance of Tanalith® E. The first Tanalith® E formulation was sold in […]Read More

Wood is enjoying a renaissance in popularity. That’s because theenvironmentalperformance of construction materials has become a major priority for building designers. The environmental benefits of wood are compelling. It scores highly as a sustainable material; a product of nature that locks up the carbon absorbed by growing trees. The recent UN climate change conference, COP 26, […]Read More

Dipping/Spraying, Low-pressure, Metal free High-pressure treatments Wood destroying organisms such as fungi, beetles and termites as well as bacteria and mold have an adverse effect on the durability of wood. Isn’t it great that a single product, impra®lit TSK 40, protects different applications of woodencomponents in cladding, fences or window frames with a free choice […]Read More

As stability returns to the timber industry following the turbulent trading conditions of 2021 the need to quality assure preservative-treated wood is again concentrating minds. That’s because members of the Timber Trade Federation (TTF) decided in November 2020 to require independent verification of the impregnation process that produces the treated wood they supply and are […]Read More

For years we have lived with seeing the garden fence and shed in shades of brown or green, generally because no other colours were available, or it was just the colour of the chemical preservative used to treat the timber. As the market has changed and evolved, this no longer needs to be the case. […]Read More

COP26 Glasgow highlighted just how hard it is to get united global action on climate change. Although agreements were thin on the ground, a significant highlight of the conference was recognition for the positive role that wood plays in tackling the principal cause of global warming – carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – and why the […]Read More

In February 2021, Lonza Wood Protection announced the agreed sale of Lonza Specialty Ingredients (LSI), of which they were part of, to private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven. The sale completed in the Summer and on October 21st the new company brand of Arxada was revealed. Andy Hodge, Marketing Director for the EIMEA Wood […]Read More

From July 2022 every wood treatment operation managed by or supplying TTF members must be quality assured by an independent third-party. As the deadline approaches wood treaters are set to turn to the Wood Protection Association’s ‘Benchmark’ quality scheme. The WPA Benchmark quality scheme provides independent confirmation that wood products have been treated correctly in […]Read More