Building materials - steel, cement, concrete - and their supply chains account for a significant share of global carbon emissions. Reducing the footprint of this industry will require better, high-performance materials, not just cleaner energy.
Avant Wood is making modifying waste-wood and small diameter wood, to have similar strength to steel and dimensional stability as concrete, for use in buildings and furniture. We believe wood has tremendous yet untapped potential as a material.
Avant Wood has developed a patented Thermo-Mechanical Timber Modification (TMTM) process — a chemical-free way to enhance the durability, stability and strength of low-value and underutilised wood species. The process is 70–90% faster than traditional thermal modification methods, and works on over 150 types of wood species.
Avant Wood's modular units enable local processing of timber that would otherwise be exported raw or wasted. Through the TMTM process, low-quality wood (typically used as fuelwood) and softwood can mirror the qualities of hardwood, enabling them to be used for applications in furniture and building materials.
- Chemical-free timber modification
- 70–90% faster than traditional methods
- Modular, all-in-one-line units
- Local processing of low-value species
- Mirrors the qualities of hardwood
- Lowest-cost carbon sequestration for 40+ years
- Sector
- Green Buildings
- Headquarters
- Finland
- Year invested
- 2022
- Stage
- Pre-Series A