ToIr 25 TFeaters

Companies are ranked by production of lumber, timbers and specialty products. Firms exclusively treating poles, pilings, railroad ties, etc., are not included. Abbreviations include NfP (Not for Publication), NA (Not Available), FRT (Fire Retardant Treatment), and WR (Water Repellent).

All information was provided by the companies themselves. While every effort was made to ensure full accuracy and completeness, a handful of treaters elected not to participate in this survey.

- The Editors

"We will be treating three different species, hem-fir, Douglas fir and southern pine," says Rick Danielson. "We are currently doing engineering and construction to add additional capacity. Some locations already have multiple cylinders; White City is adding cylinder capacity."

As for how long the company will produce what, he says, "We're going to do what our customers need."

Ayres & Baker Pole & Post (Mt. View, Wy.)

"l'm leaning toward staying with CCA, but we really haven't gotten enough information to make a decision," says sales mgr. Larry Ayres. "We're primarily industrial, so we wouldn't lose much (if we eliminated residential applications)."

Baxter, J.H. (San Mateo, Ca.)

Sande Lavino says that Baxter was the first commercial treater of ACQ Preserve beginning in 1992. She adds Baxter will be expanding the ACQ capacity at its Weed, Ca., plant to meet the increased demand. In addition, Baxter will be expanding its wood preservatives to include copper naphthenate in Eugene, Or.

Chemonite (ACZA), unaffected by the EPA's recent ruling, will continue to be offered through its licensees at nine treating facilities for use in commercial and industrial applications. Baxter's Long Beach, Ca., reload facility will continue to store and distribute all products, notes Lavino.

Bouma Post Yards (Lincoln. Mt.)

21 plants: Windsor, Co.; Auburndale, Fl.; Moultrie, Union Cig, Ga.; Granger, Westville, ln.; Belchertown, Ma.; Hanisonville, Mo.; Elizabeth City, Salisbury, N.C.; Blanchester, Hamilton, Lodi, Oh.; Gordon, Stockertown, Pa.: New Waverly, Saginaw, Schertz, Silsbee, Tx.; Janesville, Wi.; Ranson, W,V.

Treatments: CCA, ACQ, FRT, WR, Colorant

Products: Lumber, Ptywood, Timbers, Specialties, Posts a, 3

Great Southern Wood Preserving NfP Nfp +t4o/o Abbeville, Al.

8 0lants: Abbeville, Mobile, Muscle Shoals, Al.; Sumter County, Fl.; Conyers, Statesboro, Ga.; Memphis, Tn.; Columbus, Tx.

Treatments: CCA, WR

Products: Lumber, Plywood, Timbers, Specialties, Pilings, Posts 3

2 Georgia-Pacific Corp. NfP NIP .11YO Atlanta, Ga.

12 plants: Alhens, Nauvoo, Louisville, Al,; Rockledge, Fl.; Sterling, Ga.; Rochelle, ll.; Richmond, In.; Pleasant Hill, Mo.; Middleburg, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; Rock Hill, S.C.; Mineola, Tx.

Treatments: CCA

Products: Lumber, Plywood, Timbers, Specialties, Posts

President Louis W. Bouma says that his company has not decided whether it will convert its operation. "We have two years to make a decision, and we'll just take our time," he says. Bouma notes that the majority of his treating applications aren't for residential dimension lumber.

California Cascade Industries (Sacramento, Ca.)

The Sacramento facility "will eventually convert to NatureWood ACQ," says sales mgr. Stu Heath. "We started borates a couple of years ago, and we're already producing ACQ at Woodland (Ca.). We're going to offer CCA as long as there's a demand for it. The equipment is already in place, so we could convert at any time."

Coast Wood Preserving (Ukiah, Ca.)

The company expects to make an announcement in second quarter 2002.

Conrad Forest Products (North Bend, Or.)

Conrad has been using Chemonite (ACZA) since 1990. It added TimBor (borates) in 1990 and ACQ Preserve in 1993. In January 2001, it became the first North American wood treater of Natural Select wood (CBA).

The company now offers Natural Select, Wolmanized Sillbor (borates), Chemonite dimensional products, and selected interior fire-retardant lumber and plywood. CCA, while still available, is being gradually phased out.

In addition to plants in North Bend and Rainier, Or., a new treating facility in Arbuckle, Ca., designed for the new generation of preservatives will be in full production by the beginning of next year, and will include the production of Dricon (interior fire-retardant) building materials.

Coos Bay Lumber Co. (North Bend, Or.)

In early February, the company began treating with ACQ Preserve and TimberSaver PT (borates), which will be marketed as DuraBor in Hawaii and DuraSill in the mainland U.S. Conversion of a second larger facility on the 2J-acre North Bend site is, according to Ronald McCormick, v.p.-sales and marketing, "in the works. The decision's been made. It will take about six to nine months to change over from CCA to ACQ."

The third cylinder on the property will continue with CCA.

Exterior Wood (Washougal, Wa.)

Exterior Wood converted two of its four cylinders to Natural Select last year. Stan Bishopbrick sees the demand for non-CCA treated products growing, pointing out that some of his larger customers have gone to stocking 100% arsenic-free wood. The company hopes that by next year, 90Vo of its lumber will be treated with Natural Select.

Fontana Wood Preserving (Fontana, Ca.)

Fontana is in the process of investigating alternative preservatives and will make an announcement in the second quarter.

Honolulu Wood Treating Co., Ltd. (Kapolei, Hi.)

According to president Hap Person, the company has spent years working on alternatives to CCA Douglas Fir structural framing to protect Hawaii's homeowners from subterranean Formosan termites. Hawaii became the first state whose building codes required "all structural wood members in a home to be pressure treated to the local treatment standards." The local code amendments require wood treatments to meet higher chemical loading standards than those required for sill plate stock on the mainland with an independent third party inspection.

In the mid to late 1980s, HWT began working with U.S. Borax to develop treating standards for what is now sold as Hi-bor treated wood. The Hi-bor standard and trademark were approved in 1991, and the company has since processed hundreds of millions of board feet of lumber and plywood to frame thousands of homes in the state.

HWT has offered a limited service of CCA-treated wood for the past eight years, but will phase out the chemical over the next six months based on market demand. That cylinder space will be devoted to Hi-bor.

The firm also uses TRIB II, a specialty oil-borne process for kiln dried, millwork, glulam beams and engineered wood products.

Inchelium Tribal Wood Treatment (Inchelium, Wa.)

Plant superintendent Mike Stensgar says that he met with one of the three major chemical companies about a

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