Major Western Wood Preserver

licensee of Koppers Co. on the Wolman salt program with the cylinder at Tacoma converted and operational for the Outdoor Wood@ Program. This treating plant was constructed in 1975 and is reportedly the most modern of its kind on the Pacific Coast. Facilities include a complete resawing and surfacing mill.

With the chain of treatment plants, it is possible for them to provide a wide range of services and complete custom work. Quality control labs strive for uniform

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Pressure treaters battle for share of wood market. .. upgraded treatment plants. facilities. serYice.. push fight.

quality from each plant. Patented full-length pole incisors used in the operation insure adequate and uniform penetration of preservative into the wood in excess of 2t/2."

Extra-long retorts have the capacity of treating wood products with Penta, creosote, or waterborne salts. Pole treating by thermal full-length and butt-treating processes is done at Sandpoint.

As part of the All Weather Wood Foundations program, the company dries Chemonite-treated lumber and plywood in a 120'by 120' kiln. Products are then wrapped with moisture-proof covering to assure delivery of dry material.

Wood products manufactured by McFarland Cascade, poles, piling, posts, railroad ties, bridge timbers, guard rail posts, lumber, plywood, glulams, crossarms, flagpoles and ship masts, are in use throughout

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