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“It’s all about education, letting
people know what this really does.”
— Bob Lennon, International Marketing
and Sales Director, and principal owner,
ThermalWood Canada
wood, the moisture content in the wood, and
the applications,” Lennon explains. “If it’s an
exterior application, it’s different than an interior
application. Our ultimate temperatures that we
reach are different for an exterior than they are
for an interior application. The higher you go in
temperature, the more durable the wood is.”
ThermalWood Canada has more than 200 recipes.
White oak, which requires 140 hours in the kiln,
involves the most complicated recipe. White ash
“cooks” for 80-90 hours and red oak requires about
the same amount of time to modify thermally.
The time the wood spends in the kiln also depends
on the type of wood and its moisture content.
“We remove 100 per cent of the moisture in the
wood in the first phase of our process,” Lennon
says. “If there’s a higher moisture content in the
VARIATIONS IN wood, it equates to more time in the oven.”
TREATING WOOD
However, he adds, “You can’t go too high in
temperature because after that the wood becomes
Each type of wood has its own recipe.
way too brittle.”
“The recipes are based on the species of
ThermalWood Canada’s kiln can fire up to 225
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