HelsinkiWood Pine Thermo SHP 26×92

Scots pine is the most common of the pine species, and although it demands light, it also tolerates extreme growing conditions well. Pine wood is highly valued for its good mechanical properties: it is light, soft, and easy to process. Wood is mainly used for furniture and as a framing material in construction, as well as for the production of cladding and flooring boards, parquet, plywood, doors, and windows. The colour of the raw wood is variable, from pale yellow to reddish which aquires a beautiful brown colour after the thermo-treatment.

Did you know:
Pine sprouts and branches are used as medicinal plants, and the needles are used to produce pine oil, vitamin C, and B vitamins. The flour and paste made from the needles is used as animal feed. Pine bark powder is used to clean up oil spills because it absorbs oil and other environmentally hazardous substances, but not water. Pine resinous wood tar used to be a universal household lubricant and impregnating agent, while today pine resin is used to make turpentine and rosin.

Thermo-treatment is a natural way of enhancing wood that does not use chemicals or other additives, only heat and water vapor. Therefore, the wood is well suited to living spaces and the production process itself is environmentally friendly, without harmful waste.

Helsinki Wood Thermo wood is thermo-treated using the high-tech WDE Maspell patented solution, where the wood is treated under vacuum at 190-230 °C without the addition of chemicals. The closed environment ensures a well-controlled, stable and high-quality processing process that is more water and energy efficient and safer than conventional equipment.

During thermo-treatment, wood acquires many valuable properties:

• Wood becomes more stable, durable and wear-resistant and deforms minimally.

• The wood becomes lighter and easier to handle.

• The moisture content of the wood decreases, as does the thermal conductivity, thanks to which it is especially suitable for hot and humid rooms.

• Thermo-treatment furnishes wood with a beautiful brown colour and emphasises its texture. Depending on the degree of treatment and the type of wood, the shade may be darker or lighter.