Modern impregnation plants are designed to prevent spread of impregnation solutions from the plant through leakage, etc. It is also important that freshly treated timber does not spread solutions through dripping on the storage area. To prevent this, the impregnation procedure is terminated with a vacuum period. In many plants in Sweden this period is minimized or even excluded to gain time. Instead the freshly treated timber is tilted for some time before it is transported to the storage area. To evaluate the effect of these two methods to get a non-dripping freshly treated timber a small study was carried out by the Swedish National Testing Institute (SP) together with the Swedish Wood Preservation Institute (SWPI).

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