Market Opportunity: Heat-treated Hardwoods
January 2009A subscriber recently requested that we recap what has happened to markets for hardwood lumber during the past several years. Simply put, most markets have shrunk significantly in the past two years because of extremely slow home building activity.
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Perdure Technology Overview
March 2006
The environmental and public health concerns that arise from the chemical treatment of wood have brought about the development of greener alternatives.
PCI Industries Inc. has created a heat treatment technology for wood (the PerdureTM technology) that does not require any added chemical agents and which sterilizes and protects the wood against microorganisms and insects (except termites), and improves its dimensional stability.
This technology, an ecological substitute for chemically treated wood, extends the service life of the wood and can be used on all species. Also, the heating process alters the color of the bulk wood, leading to the production of exotic wood substitutes.
