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Viance to Showcase UltraPole® NXT with DCOI at the 2024 SSCA Conference in Tempe, AZ

Ultrapole NXTLeave a CommentSeptember 6, 2024December 6, 2024

Viance is proud to again participate in the Sustainable Supply Chain Alliance (SSCA) Conference, taking place in Tempe, AZ, from September 25-26, 2024. The conference is dedicated to improving environmental performance and advancing sustainable business practices across supply chain operations, supplier performance, and procured products and services. Viance will be showcasing their environmentally advanced UltraPole®…

FAQs: UltraPole NXT with DCOI

Ultrapole NXTLeave a CommentFebruary 13, 2024February 12, 2024

What is significant about UltraPole NXT poles and crossarms with DCOI? They provide long-term efficacy with low environmental impact. They are the first major innovation in years for utility infrastructure, with 28 years of performance data for treated wood pole and crossarm protection. What preservative is used in UltraPole NXT poles and crossarms? The active…

South Central Power Company, the first to install UltraPole® NXT wood utility poles treated with DCOI

Ultrapole NXTLeave a CommentFebruary 7, 2024

South Central Power Company is the largest member-owned cooperative power company in Ohio and the twentieth largest in the country. South Central Power was the first electric cooperative to install and test wood poles treated with UltraPole®NXT in 2018. UltraPole NXT is formulated with the active ingredient, DCOI an environmentally advanced organic, broad-spectrum biocide and is EPA-classified…

Frequently Asked Questions

What is significant about UltraPole NXT and UltraArm NXT with DCOI?
They provide long-term efficacy with low environmental impact. They are the first major innovation in years for utility infrastructure, with 28 years of performance data for treated wood pole and crossarm protection.
What are the environmental benefits of UltraPole NXT and UltraArm NXT?
UltraPole NXT and UltraArm NXT:
- use less energy, fossil fuels, and water to produce; with lower ecotoxicity than other materials used in poles
- have a wider range of disposal options at the end of life
- The active ingredient, DCOI, earned the EPA’s President’s Green Chemistry Challenge Award in 1996 for its use as an alternative to tributyltin (TBT) compounds in marine antifoulant coatings.
  
  DCOI is also the active ingredient in Ecolife®, the best performing, non-metal based, above-ground residential deck preservative on the market.
  
  DCOI is also used in water treatment, paints and coatings, adhesives, vinyl roof membranes, vinyl flooring, marine upholstery, outdoor furniture, and shower curtains for example.
  
  DCOI is stable and leach resistant.
  
  DCOI is effective against wood decay fungi and termites.
What are the benefits for linemen?
Generally linemen will not notice a difference between DCOI and penta treated poles other than it’s lower odor and is also easy to climb.

Testimonials

What are Customers Saying

“The first things I noticed were the poles were odor-free
and dry to the touch.”

Brian Murch, Electric Distribution Supervison, Painesville, OH
Working to rebuild an electric distribution line for
South Central Power Company

In replacing utility poles with DCOI treated UltraPole NXT utility poles,
Troy Carpenter said,
“Unlike the other poles, these don’t smell and
they don’t cause me to sneeze.”

Troy Carpenter – Foreman, J.F. Electric, Edwardsville, IL