"No toxins? No plastic?
No kidding. Thermally modified wood
may be the best thing since sliced cedar."
Creating Thermally Modified Wood
The process of thermal modification is accomplished with a heat and steam process. This process actually dates back to the age of the Vikings. They discovered that burning the surface of wood made it more durable and excellent for exterior use. Europeans have been perfecting the thermally modified wood process over the past century, incorporating steam into the heat process. By doing so the wood can be heated to extremely high temperatures which alters the makeup of the wood's structure making it extremely resistant to rot, decay and mildew. This is all done without the use of chemicals.
