Wood treating plant manufacturer WTT (Wood Treatment Technology) and treated wood producer CJT Timber Sourcing are the latest businesses to join the Wood Protection Association (WPA). Both businesses put quality at the centre of their operations, and it is the WPA’s drive to promote quality assured, fit for purpose treatments that was behind their decision to join.
“The WTT team believe firmly that the only way to futureproof demand for treated wood is to ensure compliance with national standards and to collaborate with organisations committed to achieving this.” said WTT Managing Director, Jakob Jakobsen, who added that membership of WPA also provides a valuable platform for knowledge sharing and ensuring best practice.
He continued: “WTT’s core mission is to support the correct treatment of wood, which we do by continuously monitoring developments from chemical suppliers and ensuring that the design and operation of our equipment is always compatible with the latest formulations, processes and the requirements of third-party quality assurance schemes such as the WPA Benchmark.”
CJT Timber Sourcing has operations in Wales and Scotland and Managing Director Ben Parton said joining the WPA is part of the company’s strategy to reaffirm our commitment as a premium-quality supplier of preservative pre-treated wood. He explained: “By becoming a WPA member we align CJT Timber Sourcing with high performance, long-lasting wood treatment in compliance with WPA and British Standards specifications. We believe the only way to give our customers confidence in the quality of our treatment claims for the range of products we produce, is to have them independently assessed and certificated using a WPA-approved preservative under the WPA Benchmark quality scheme.”
Ben added that membership of WPA has additional commercial benefits by giving CJT access to the latest research, bespoke guidance, and technical expertise saying: “We are really proud to be a part of the WPA community which we feel will allow us to showcase across a wider audience why it’s important to buy correctly treated wood products made from homegrown softwoods especially for agricultural fencing.”
Welcoming WTT and CJT into membership, WPA Chairman Steve Young said: “It’s really encouraging when new members join the WPA and give a ringing endorsement of our strategy of collectively championing treatment quality and improving buyer knowledge on behalf of all our members.”
Pictured: One of WTT (Wood Treatment Technology)’s most recent installations at Valbo Trä in Sweden, a fully automated plant with an annual capacity of 240,000 m3, fully integrated with the customers ERP system and only operated by an operator and a forklift driver.
