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Some pressure-treated lumber is expensive, while high-grade pressure-treated lumber costs more. If you have your heart set on imported wood, such as mahogany, cumaru or ipe, you’ll spend much more.

Like many homeowners, I was initially drawn to pressure-treated southern yellow pine. Far and away the best-selling decking material in the U.S., it offers the natural beauty of wood at a low cost.

Sci. Technol. 2004, DOI: 10.1021/es0351342). Nonetheless, at the beginning of the 21st century, the chemicals in pressure-treated lumber changed.

Other than the features that depend on the type of tree the wood came from (i.e. maple, oak, birch, etc.), how wood is used also comes down to whether or not it’s pressure treated.

Montreal – Stella-Jones Inc. has entered into an agreement to purchase Cahaba Pressure Treated Forest Products Inc. for $66 million, including $8 million in working capital.