Understand Kebony Wood Properties

[Music] what's your what's the product called first so this is kevany wood Kevin Wood yeah so this is not necessarily something for a painter but I'm interested in it because hey it's a lifetime product that was Tre used to treat wood I think so looks pretty amazing so can you tell me a little bit about the product yeah so Kevin you wood we our goal is to take the lowest species of wood fiber there is it's pine pine we get the pine out of New Zealand and it's a 25e fast growing tree it's all Plantation grown it's not wild harvested or anything like that we Harvest one tree we plant two all sustainable largely FSC okay so our process is we want to take the lowest wood fiber pulp pine and we use the natural sugars in the wood and then we use a product called fural alcohol which is a food safe product and it's also a food waste product it's actually gone out of uh rendering down the chaff from sugar cane and also corn cobs when you refine the corn cobs down you get two kinds of alcohol you get ethanol and you get fural we use the fural fural is also in most paint products by the way they use that now so what ends up happening is we get a chemical reaction in the wood between the natural sugars and the wood and the fural alcohol so this was Pine originally was Pine and we now call call it kebony because we' koniz the wood by using our fural alcohol process which is unique to us not replicable at at this time by anybody else but us and and what we do is we molecularly change the wood so the process when we go through our it's a dual modification process we chemically modify it with the food safe fural alcohol and then we then we heat modify it through a curing process when we do that it actually leaves the wood in a permanently