McMinnville, Ore. – Pioneer Millworks, a Rochester-based manufacturer of sustainable and recovered wooden floors, darns and siding, has launched two new thermally modified additions to the Pioneer MillWorks product line: Abodo Vulcan STAUS and Abodo Vulcan Decking.
“Thermally modified wood is a spectacular material that really gains traction and trend in design,” said Jered Slusser, Pioneer Millworks sales manager.
Sustainable, stable and breathtaking, the company said that users from our Abodo Vulcan-modified wood and a special farbard that corresponds to most aesthetics can expect a life full of beauty and durable, climatic-conscious design from our Abodo Vulcan Modified Wood.
For longevity, look and environment, our Abodo Vulcan Siding and Decking is harvested sustainably from responsible New Zealand forests and manufactured from the FSC-certified radiata pine in our US mills. 100% recyclable and renewable. With a stable supply chain, Abodo is an alternative to: vinyl parking track, cement board and pressure-treated wood. The thermal modification process leads to a reduced resin content that results in improved stability and long-term vitalability, all of which are supported by a 15-year guarantee.
Free of chemicals, fungicides, insecticides and plastics from Red List. In addition, the thermal modification process offers it with an additional water department, protection against insects and enables it to reduce more carbon than during its manufacturing process.
What Abodo Vulcan separates from several other thermally modified products on the market are the conscientious test processes that appear both in the laboratory and long-term field tests.
The managing director of Abodo Daniel Gudsell said: “The only way to prove that a modified wood is durable is to carry out a field test in which wood released in an accelerated decay zone and tries to create an environment in which it is falsified very quickly, and they can have comparable samples.”
“The durability of class 1 is the highest form of durability based on laboratory tests. We carried out these tests and Abodo has the durability of class 1. It is crucial that you have a field test to support the laboratory. A laboratory test gives you a hint and a field test gives you specific evidence,” says Gudsell.
Our thermally modified siding offers unsurpassed durability and weather capacity and is also available in a variety of proprietary surfaces and profiles and can work with an architectural intention or application, be it vertically, horizontal, commercial or residential building.
Safe enough to get inside and hard enough to be installed outside.