Kebony Character Cladding

Scots pine impregnated with furfuryl alcohol — a bio-based chemistry derived from agricultural crop waste — then cured, permanently thickening the cell walls so a fast-grown softwood behaves like a durable hardwood: Kebony quote class 1 durability and use it uncoated, weathering to silver-grey. Character is the knotty grade cut from the whole log. The modification is chemical rather than thermal, so unlike thermally modified timber it adds real fossil carbon in production (+231 kgCO2e/m³) — but the timber’s biogenic store still dominates the declared A1–A3.