WPA Awards celebrate excellence

12 April 2019


Excellence in the field of timber treatments was celebrated at the annual Wood Protection Association (WPA) Awards on April 10.

This year’s winners were:

  • Quality excellence: Bond Timber
  • Treated wood trader: Walford Timber
  • Outstanding contribution: Dr Mark Hull, field technical services manager at Lonza Wood Protection
  • Innovation: Piveteaubois, for its Hexapli CLT panels
  • Project of the year: 999 Club Sleeping Pods, with Burnblock FR treated birch plywood supplied by Specialised Panel Products

A special award for his “absolutely outstanding contribution” to the timber treatments sector was give to former WPA chairman, Dr Chris Coggins, the association’s standards and quality director.

A full report on the awards and subsequent WPA conference will appear in a forthcoming issue of TTJ.