OrganoWood Nowa, treated with our new biocide-free wood preservative technology, has now undergone one of the toughest standardized field tests available for above-ground wood, CEN/TS 12037! The test has been going on for 5 years in Malaysia and Denmark and now we are publishing the results.
To find out if wood above ground is durable, you can do various standardized tests to see how it resists degradation, most of these are lab tests. But we also wanted to see how our new wood protection technology stands up in a natural outdoor environment in one of the world's toughest environments for wood, the Malaysian rainforest.
The independent third-party institute Danish Technological Institute has therefore carried out the field test CEN/TS 12037 with OrganoWood Nowa, treated with our new, patented wood protection technology based on biocide-free zirconium salts, in both Denmark and Malaysia.
The references, which consist of untreated pine and the impregnation CCA (copper, chromium and arsenate), which has been banned for 20 years, were also included in the test. The scale for assessing degradation ranges from 0–4, where 0 is unaffected and 4 is completely degraded. The untreated reference was completely degraded after 3 years in Malaysia, by rot fungus but also by termites. Pine pressure-impregnated with CCA was, as expected, unaffected.
But even OrganoWood Nowa was completely unaffected with 0 on the scale both in Malaysia and Denmark! The results show very good wood protection even in the hot and humid environment containing very aggressive wood-destroying organisms that a rainforest offers. The field study in Malaysia is formally completed, but we will continue to follow the timber and continuously report the results from both Denmark and Malaysia.
"This is really great news for us. The results from the five-year field tests clearly show that our Nordic Swan eco-labelled, and biocide-free technology provides exceptionally high protection against rot and performs on a par with traditional pressure-impregnated wood – even under these very demanding conditions. Our vision has always been to develop durable and environmentally certified products without compromising on performance, and these results are strong proof that we have succeeded in doing just that," says Jens Hamlin, CEO of OrganoWood.
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For more info, please contact:
Jens Hamlin, CEO OrganoWood AB
+46 (0)722 502 179
jens.hamlin@organowood.com