A new world opens for pinewood, here is a door handle made out of the compressed wood.
Researchers have given pinewood the hardness and smooth touch of precious wood. L'EPFL+ECAL Lab presents the first objects made of this new material in Helsinki today. Pinewood made denser than ebony, textured and hard likes the pure essence of wood itself? Thanks to a process that reminds one of alchemic essays to turn lead to gold, a team led by Parviz Navi has given simple pinewood similar qualities to wood from expensive and rare tropical species. Starting on the 26th of January, EPFL+ECAL Lab is displaying several objects from daily life made out the new material. Elegant and sleek, objects such as headphones and a door handle show the promising possibilities of the new procedure. Wood is composed of straw-like tubes filled with air—becoming much denser when compressed. This process has been known for some time now, but until very recently the wood would bounce back into its original form when in with humidity.
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