The preservative protection of timber is such an important factor in helping to keep wood as the premier construction material choice. Effective preservative protection not only greatly extends the service life of our most sustainable building material, it also adds value and long term performance for specifiers, merchants and their end customers.
The Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) now shapes the wood preservative formulations of the future. It continues to reduce the palette of modern chemical actives available to many industries, including wood protection. A key strength of the Lonza wood protection business is our full service approach where we put our customers at the centre of our business decisions.
Within these focused services we have experienced and influential regulatory experts, who not only help determine future regulation developments but who can also make sure that the latest preservative products we offer will meet regulatory challenges and changes and, most importantly, will protect the long term business interests of our customers.
Tanalith is our most respected and wide reaching preservative brand. We have developed our latest TANALITH preservatives to provide high levels of performance and confidence across all markets.
Tanalith was the first copper-based preservative brand to gain BPR authorisations. Its ingredients are tried and tested to help provide the broadest range of protection against decay and insect attack and the builtin and award winning BARamine application technologies deliver premium protection results on a consistent basis.
Our R&D teams are committed to developing a future pipeline of products for customers, backed up by key support services and innovative application technologies to help them produce quality treated timbers to meet their market needs.
For instance, our new hot oil based TANASOTE preservative will shortly provide an effective alternative to traditional creosote treatments of heavy duty, high performance timbers – designed to provide a 40-year service life protection against decay and insect attack for telecommunication and electricity poles, rail track timbers and industrial fencing.
Later this year we are also introducing our latest VACSOL preservative product with an innovative co-biocide that will give a new flexibility and wider scope of metal free treatment options to our low-pressure treatment customers.
The new product will bring wider solution strength options to suit specific components to be treated, giving focused treatment uptakes that will help reduce treatment costs.
VACSOL FLEX will have BPR authorisation and conversion to the new product will be a simple process managed through the Lonza engineering and technical support teams.
We believe that our customers should be working efficiently and effectively in growing pressure treated timber sales. Our investment into quality preservative products, engineering support, on-site and off-site technical services and innovative pull through marketing campaigns and customer focused literature design sets us aside as a supplier of choice to help customers achieve this.
Our engineering, technical service and marketing expertise have combined to help customers make the most of their treatment data from Auto-Treater managed operations.
We will soon be unveiling a new digital platform that will provide custom dashboards that will drive treatment efficiency to even greater levels.
We believe that the combination of modern future proof preservative products with our proven support services and application technologies makes us the attractive full service supplier.
