The treated wood industry in North America is seeing increased consumer demand for color, leading many treated lumber suppliers to explore the option of staining their pressure treated products. While the pressure treating as well as wood staining processes have existed for a while, putting the two together is…
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Staining pressure treated wood offers several advantages in addition to making a more attractive treated product. Staining with a high-quality stain creates a thin protective film for the surface of the wood, providing resistance to UV degradation of color and the wood surface, as well as protection from weather…
If you were to ask Eco Chemical’s owner and president, Mark Cheirrett, about the company’s commitment to environmental stewardship, he would say that it has very little to do with the recent hype around sustainable products. “First of all, we’ve always had a concern for the environment. We set…
Eco Chemical is considered a specialty coating company, but we like to call ourselves an applications engineering company, too. What that means is that we formulate our product specifically for the application it will be used for. In the world of wood, there are three main applications for stain:…
