Robbins Wolmanized® Heavy Duty™ wood is poles, piles, timbers, posts, or plywood that is pressure-treated with CCA preservative to provide protection from termites and fungal decay. Learn more about Wolmanized® Heavy Duty™ Wood advantages.
The chemical used to preserve Robbins Wolmanized® Heavy Duty™ pressure-treated wood is a mixture of the oxides of copper, chromium, and arsenate known as CCA.
For more information on CCA, click here.
For 70 years, CCA-treated wood has been specified in a wide variety of applications; as of December 31, 2003, this wood may be produced only for listed uses:
- Lumber for Salt Water Use
- Piling
- Poles
- Plywood
- Highway Construction
- Poles, piles and posts used as structural members on farms
- Agricultural fence posts (round, half-round, quarter-round)
- Marine Construction
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- Permanent Wood Foundations
- Building Poles and Posts
- Sawn Structural Timbers
- Sawn Crossarms
- Structural Glued Laminated Members
- Structural Composite Lumber
- Shakes and Shingles
- Cooling Towers
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When used as recommended, CCA-treated wood is harmless to people, plants, and animals. Its use provides environmental benefits as well as decades of service.
Specify Wolmanized Heavy Duty wood for applications in which conditions conducive to termites and fungal decay are present. This includes wood that will be in contact with water, soil, concrete or masonry, subject to periodic wetting, or exposed to moisture or high humidity.
For more technical information on Wolmanized Heavy Duty wood, such as explanation of CCA and how it works, fixation, retention and penetration, and heartwood versus sapwood, download the Wolmanized Heavy Duty Wood Specification Guide,
or see the FAQs.
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