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14, Oct 2025 -

PRO-TREAT, Your Invisible Assistant

PRO-TREAT, Your Invisible Assistant

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Pro-Treat is an invisible assistant for your treatment plant operators.

It guides them to follow good practice, prompting them to follow each step and capture data required by the specifications to ensure a quality product.

Should any step be missed, Pro-Treat prompts the operators to complete it before moving forward.

Timber plant operators perform a vital function within the timber treatment value chain. Their work is often seen as mundane or simple and its importance overlooked; yet few people fully understand the treatment process, which is a specialised one, especially considering the variations in biological traits of wood.

To be a good treatment plant operator, you need to be proficient in basic mathematics, understand specifications for the targets to be met, and have a grasp of process control.

Often, the operators experience enormous pressure to produce treated timber and poles as quickly as possible to meet short deadlines. This can lead them to become overwhelmed.

They may then deviate from the required process or in some instances become complacent, skipping vital steps. Dolphin Bay designed Pro-Treat with a functional and systematic process in mind. It ensures that a uniform, compliant data record is kept at all times.

To be a good treatment plant operator, you need to be proficient in basic mathematics, understand specifications for the targets to be met, and have a grasp of process control.

It gives you reassurance and control over a process into which few people have insight. It brings order to previously outdated systems.

Pro-Treat now also sends a daily summary of your treatment plant operations indicating key parameters regarding how much timber was treated, which specifications were achieved, which areas need attention, and a host of additional information to give the managers immediate insights, by just glancing at the daily report.

Pro-Treat is truly an invisible assistant, gently guiding your operators to produce treated timber of the highest quality.

You will wonder how you coped without it. Any treatment plant without Pro-Treat will have a distinct disadvantage; those having access to the technology will outperform those who do not.

Source: Dolphin Bay

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