Burma tone, without Burma stock
Thermo Teak
Tectona grandis — thermally modified at 212°C
FSC plantation teak is legal, traceable — and paler and less even than the sanctioned Burma stock buyers remember. The thermowood cycle closes that gap: it darkens and evens plantation teak toward the old Burma tone, through the full thickness.
What thermo fixes
Colourevened & deepened through-boardPlantation teak's weakness is looks, not performance — paler, streakier than old-growth. The kiln evens and deepens it. Durability was never the problem.
Botanical
Tectona grandis
Density
560–600 kg/m³
Durability
EN 350 Class 1–2
Origin
FSC plantation only
Chemicals
None — heat & steam
Why anyone thermo-modifies teak at all.
Tectona grandis needs no durability rescue — teak heartwood rates EN 350 class 1–3 depending on origin, and its natural oils are the stuff of ship-deck legend. Our stock is FSC-certified plantation teak from Costa Rica, Ghana, Panama and Indonesia; Myanmar-origin stock is restricted under the 2021 EU/US sanctions.
Plantation teak's honest weakness is appearance: grown on a 25–30 year rotation instead of a century, it comes out paler, with more colour variation between boards, than the Burma stock the market was built on. The ThermoWood cycle corrects exactly that — it deepens and evens the colour through the full thickness, lifts plantation heartwood toward class 1–2, and drops moisture movement by half. The natural silica and oil that make teak teak survive the kiln. What you get is the Burma look on legal, documented stock.
Legal status
FSC CoC
Plantation stock from Costa Rica, Ghana, Panama, Indonesia — chain-of-custody SCS-COC-006930. No Myanmar-origin timber.
Colour correction
Through-board
Thermo deepens pale plantation teak toward the old Burma tone — evenly, through the thickness, not a surface stain.
Thermo Teak — raw vs modified.
Every value below is sourced from an independently published technical standard, the ThermoWood Association technical handbook, or — where published literature is thin — flagged as issued per batch from our own testing.
Values double-verifiedPrimary sources: International ThermoWood® Association technical handbook (Finnish Thermowood Association); USDA Forest Products Laboratory, FPL-GTR-190 Chapter 19; The Wood Database; EN 350:2016; EN 335:2013; EN 13501-1:2018; EN 1534:2020; CEN/TS 15679:2007; ISO 21887. FSC Chain of Custody SCS-COC-006930. Independent test reports available per project on request.
Five applications.
Full process explanation on the Thermowood range page. Install specifications issued per project — request technical PDF.
See the board before you specify it.
Order free samples, download the technical datasheet, or send us the BOQ. We come back with profile, lead time and pricing. Shipped pan-India from Kaithal.