March 23, 2007
A Safe Way of Treating Wood
What it is: A new way of treating wood with environmentally safe preservatives. The technique uses microscopic beads as sponges, ferrying preservatives into the center of the wood.
The market: Demand for wood preservatives worldwide is projected to top $3-billion by 2009. In 2003 preservative companies voluntarily abandoned traditional treatments, which contain arsenic, opting for more benign fungicides, including some related to the household cleaner Borax. Since then, saturating the
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