Industrial wood preservative specialists, Koppers, has extended its revolutionary micronized copper treatment range, MicroPro - the leading wood preservative technology.
Exhibiting a lighter colour, especially when compared to alternative copper based treated timber products, MicroPro allows contractors to build with a timber material that is more natural looking in its appearance.
Traditional methods of getting copper into timber involve dissolving the copper in a solvent, but Koppers’ MicroPro technology is different; it does not use organic solvents. Instead, it uses micronizing technology that grinds the copper particles so small that they can easily penetrate the wood in solid form.
Meeting stringent environmental and performance credentials, MicroPro technology has been awarded the GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification. The GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certification SM programme approves products with low volatile organic chemical (VOC) emissions that are suitable for use in schools, offices and other sensitive environments. More information available at www.greenguard.org
Drying much faster than alternatives and offering better corrosion resistance for code approved fasteners and hardware, MicroPro technology is solvent free, allowing for direct contact with aluminium, without any degradation.
Matthew Hempson, Business Development Director at Koppers said: “Following extensive research and development, MicroPro has been created to deliver a treatment that will ensure the longevity of treated timber without compromising on aesthetics. As such, MicroPro is now being used as a matter of course by John Brash in all of its timber products.”
Chris Watson, Managing Director at John Brash commented: “The eradication of the dark green hue was one of the key drivers in our switch to MicroPro. We have a bulk treatment requirement for standard roofing battens and this requires a modern high performance, low emission and low cost system – Koppers’ MicroPro offered all of this.”
“MicroPro has proven very effective toward our timber decking in terms of the colour – the feint green wash mellowed to a copper brown before silvering, which is ideal for decking.”
“Because MicroPro does not contain organic solvents, it does not react with the tannins in western red cedar in the way that amine solubilised copper does, which we feel gives a more attractive appearance to our cedar shingles product.”
