Improving the performance of wood joinery through vacuum impregnation of wood primers and preservatives in a single treatment process
PRIME
Start
Date: September 2001
Finish
Date: August 2004
Currently wooden joinery is primed and preservative pre-treated using multiple
operations which incur a time and cost penalty during manufacture. This research was
conceived through a necessity to add value to wood joinery whilst keeping costs to a
minimum by integrating the priming and preservation operations into a single process.
To make wood joinery in Europe more competitive by improving its
stability and durability through a process of vacuum pressure impregnation of the primer
and preservative in a single treatment operation.
Timber Research & Development Association
Commission of the European Communities
TRADA Technology Ltd
SHR-Denmark
VTT-Finland
Oxford Brookes University-UK
Arch Timber Protection-UK
