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1 5.17.1 Foreword

This chapter aims to outline the use of microbicides in wood protection formulations, which are applied by industrial pre-treatment processes. This includes a description of wood structure, the influence of wood degrading organisms, methods of determining wood preservative performance and the types of microbicides and formulations used to control the degradative process in different end uses.

The wood protection industry is changing rapidly at the present time due to the increased pressures on the use of microbicides generally. As a result, the role of a wood protection formulation is changing with greater emphasis being placed on aesthetic properties as well as the selection and design of end-use specific products. In this way, the industry is gradually moving away from the situation where a single product is able to treat all commodities such as the copper chrome arsenic (CCA) type product. In achieving this goal, the specific properties of individual microbicides...

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Williams, G.R. (2004). Industrial wood protection. In: Paulus, W. (eds) Directory of Microbicides for the Protection of Materials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2818-0_23

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