It's time to tidy the shed... inside and out.   Date: 03 May 2013 16:42   Restol™ Wood Oil is the unique ‘all in one’ timber coating and is the only can you’ll need in your shed when it comes to protecting your garden timbers this Bank Holiday. ...   Read More

Tweddle Engineering Launch New Incising Technologies   Date: 22 April 2013 12:36   From the middle of April, Tweddle Engineering, working in partnership with Lonza Wood Protection, can offer timber treatment and sawmill companies a choice of innovative incising technologies ...   Read More

New Colourful Protection   Date: 23 November 2012 13:25   Lonza Wood Protection has introduced a new coatings range for exclusive use on NON-COM Exterior fire retardant treated timber claddings. Working in partnership with Netherlands-based Drywood Coati...   Read More

Restol Wood Oil in UK Relaunch   Date: 15 November 2012 10:20   Lonza Wood Protection is relaunching its range of Restol Wood Oil products. Restol wood oil is a high-performance, low maintenance, linseed oil based product providing a complete finish from a single ...   Read More

Lonza Launch CPD Portal to Architects and Specifiers   Date: 01 November 2012 12:41   Lonza Wood Protection is officially launching its new Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portal on Friday, November 2. Lonza Wood Protection has offered CPD technical presentations for some ...   Read More

Lonza best at Timber-Expo   Date: 01 October 2012 15:33   Lonza Wood Protection was awarded the "Best stand in show" at the recent Timber-Expo 2012 by the show organisers and TRADA. The Lonza stand featured TANALITH E 8000 wood preservative, recently laun...   Read More

Non-Com Exterior now Approved by the WPA   Date: 29 August 2012 12:53   Non-Com Exterior, Lonza’s long established leach resistant fire retardant protection for exterior timbers, has just achieved certification as a WPA Approved Product, the highest quality approval from ...   Read More

Tanalith E 8000 Shortlisted For Innovation Award   Date: 24 August 2012 13:14   Tanalith E 8000, Lonza’s next generation wood preservative launched to the UK and Ireland markets in July this year, has been selected as one of the shortlisted finalist in this year’s Timber Trades J...   Read More

Next Generation TANALISED Timber   Date: 19 July 2012 10:40   This summer the introduction of Lonza Wood Protection’s next generation TANALITH E wood preservative will lead the way in timber treatment innovation and performance in the UK. The culmination of exte...   Read More

Timber Expo 2012 Preview   Date: 12 July 2012 13:12   Lonza Wood Protection will be exhibiting at the 2nd Timber Expo event this September. The UK’s only dedicated timber exhibition will be held at Coventry’s award-winning Ricoh Arena on the 25 and 26 Se...   Read More

Lonza Wood Protection Installs Incising Test Rig for Home Grown Timber   Date: 11 April 2012 13:10   Lonza Wood Protection, a business of Arch Timber Protection Limited, a Lonza company, has installed an incising test rig at its headquarters in Castleford, England to enable customers to see the resul...   Read More

DRICON celebrates 25 years of BBA accreditation   Date: 14 March 2012 10:33   Timber is a valuable and versatile building material, but just like concrete or steel, it can be open to the threat of fire. In April 2012, DRICON, Arch Timber Protection’s water-based fire retardant,...   Read More

Arch Fire Protection on Tour – Arch Joins the RIBA CPD Providers Network Roadshow   Date: 06 March 2012 11:06   Arch Timber Protection – part of the wider Lonza Group – has confirmed that it will be participating in the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 2012 CPD Providers Roadshow for the first time....   Read More

Bond Timber and Arch Timber Protection Conduct Forum on Treated Timbers for Agricultural and Fencing Customers   Date: 22 February 2012 10:53   Bond Timber, one of the leading suppliers of fencing and landscaping timbers in southwest England, recently teamed up with Arch Timber Protection to conduct a forum for agricultural and fencing contra...   Read More

TANALISED® E Latest Accolade   Date: 08 February 2012 13:43   TANALISED E pressure treated timber has recently been verified by Ecospecifier Global – the world's leading source of life-cycle assessed and certified ecobuilding materials and technologies. Ecosp...   Read More

Book Now For the CPD Event of the Year!   Date: 31 January 2012 13:14   Never mind the recent spate of award winners and glamorous parties, Arch Timber Protection – part of the Lonza Group - is celebrating after launching two new Continued Professional Development (CPD) s...   Read More

Dricon reaffirmed as the only fire retardant timber treatment approved for use on London Underground   Date: 11 October 2011 12:05   Dricon has been recommended for use by London Underground Limited (LUL) since 2007 but now also has a fully approved listing on its Product Register. This is the key reference for all suppliers into ...   Read More

Arch Timber Protection to present at Wood-NI CPD Seminar – 7th September 2011   Date: 07 September 2011 12:44   Arch Timber Protection has announced that they will be presenting at the forthcoming Wood Northern Ireland CPD Seminar on Thursday 29th September 2011. The event, to be held at Malone House, Shaw’...   Read More

Tanalith E protection goes on and on   Date: 04 August 2011 13:00   Tanalith E wood preservative from Arch Timber Protection is protecting what could be the world’s longest continuous timber bench. Manufactured from locally sourced beech and pine the new bench runs ar...   Read More

Is your timber fire classification report fit for purpose?   Date: 28 July 2011 11:37   Under the Construction, Design and Management Regulations 2007, in the event of a building fire, and any deaths caused, a court of law will want to know how fire protection systems were selected and w...   Read More

Performance = Product + Application x Services   Date: 15 June 2011 13:44   This was the key message given to audiences of Arch TANALITH E customers recently at a series of one day UK seminars. As well as assuring and proving that TANALITH E, with its unique formulation an...   Read More

Arch launches unique clear preservative treatment for timber.   Date: 06 June 2011 10:33   From 6th June 2011 Arch Timber Protection will be offering a service treatment for its new clear preservative treated timber, Tanalised Clear, providing a more aesthetically natural option for uncoate...   Read More

Haldane Fisher - Home to Arch’s Latest Plant Installation   Date: 03 June 2011 13:01   Arch Timber Protection’s specialist engineering team managed the installation of a new treatment facility at Haldane Fisher’s Newry site earlier this month. As one of the leading independent suppli...   Read More

Timber Expo 2011 Preview – June 1, 2011   Date: 01 June 2011 18:05   Arch Timber Protection is counting down the days until the first Timber Expo exhibition to take place in September. Timber Expo – to be held at Coventry’s award-winning Ricoh Arena – is the only eve...   Read More

Homes get eco treatment   Date: 03 May 2011 16:10   Duchy Timber has begun ramping up production of pressure treated timber for a new sustainable housing project in Cornwall. Construction of the first 90 houses on a former China clay site near St Au...   Read More

TANALISED E Oak Poles Support Reconstructed Prehistoric Settlement   Date: 19 April 2011 11:36   TANALISED E Oak Poles Support Reconstructed Prehistoric Settlement Arch customer Uvix Impregnation treated oak pilings with TANALITH E to be used in the reconstruction of a prehistoric settlement in L...   Read More

DRICON protecting Stirling Castle art for Scotland’s future   Date: 08 March 2011 16:51   Historic Scotland has completed work on all six apartments of the Royal Lodgings at Stirling Castle, including a recreation of the 16th century wooden ceilings. The boarded ceilings and moulded ribs f...   Read More

Arch Timber Protection release guidance on how to ensure fire retardant treated timber is fully compliant   Date: 08 March 2011 11:17   Timber treatment specialists Arch Timber Protection have released a series of e-shots focusing on the importance of compliant fire retardant treatments for timber in order to meet the latest standards...   Read More

Ecobuild a Success for Arch – March 4, 2011   Date: 04 March 2011 13:28   Arch Timber Protection has exhibited at Ecobuild 2011 – the event’s largest exhibition to date. For the sixth concurrent year, members of the Arch Sales team showcased products from the entire timber ...   Read More

NON-COM Exterior protects one of the largest Western Red Cedar projects in the UK – January 28, 2011   Date: 28 January 2011 10:24   One of the largest Western Red Cedar cladding projects ever commissioned in the UK, requiring over 4,000 sq metres of material, has been protected with Arch Timber Protection's NON-COM Exterior fir...   Read More

Arch at Ecobuild 2011 – January 17, 2010   Date: 17 January 2011 14:19   Arch Timber Protection will be exhibiting at Ecobuild 2011 – the world’s biggest event for sustainable design, construction and the built environment – for the fifth concurrent year. ...   Read More

Timber but not as we know it   Date: 13 September 2010 14:13   The Romans were fans of it, the Tudors loved it, the Scandinavians still adore it and in spite of being one of the oldest and most reliable building materials, timber has been considered a poor relat...   Read More

Arch appoints new Northern Regional Sales Manager   Date: 13 September 2010 13:20   Phil Rigby has been appointed to the position of Northern Regional Sales Manager for Arch Timber Protection. He joins Arch from Jewsons, a leading chain of building merchants, after hold...   Read More

Xanten, Germany   Date: 24 August 2010 14:36   Part of the archeological museum and excavation site of the original Roman fortress in Xanten, Germany. The playground is designed to teach children about Roman fortresses as they play. Re...   Read More

St Theresa School, Bilthoven, Holland, 2009   Date: 24 August 2010 09:51   Combined primary school, child daycare and community centre located in the Biltse woods. The curving walls of the school have been clad in Siberian Larch, treated with Tanalith E preservat...   Read More

Arch Timber Employee Features in National Press   Date: 23 August 2010 12:15   Recent newspaper reports have claimed that University graduates are increasingly unable to find employment due to cost cutting and increased competition. Arch Timber Protection’s newest Development Ch...   Read More

Kielder Observatory, Northumberland, 2008   Date: 23 August 2010 10:02   Product specification generated through a CPD presentation Observatory designed after a RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) competition launched by the Kielder Partnership.   Read More

Tanalised timber cladding provides the feel of woodland at Dutch school.   Date: 05 July 2010 13:58   The façade of St Theresa School in Bilthoven, Holland needed to be warm, recognisable and complement the lightly wooded landscape in which it is located. Therefore the choice for Tanalised E pressure ...   Read More

Tanalised pressure treated timber used to recreate Roman Fort   Date: 05 July 2010 13:51   For centuries a Roman settlement has stood on the shores of the Rhine at Xanten, Germany, originally built to guard the Northern border of the Roman empire. Now a reconstruction of the orig...   Read More

A Year of Innovation for Arch   Date: 05 July 2010 13:46   Arch Timber Protection will be launching an unprecedented four brand new product innovations to market during 2010. KEYWOOD modified timber and VACSOL FR fire retardant framing timbers, two of the fo...   Read More