Archive: November 2020
Vastern Timber pledge support to Future Trees Trust
November 30, 2020
Today we announce a three-year partnership with tree improvement charity Future Trees Trust. Vastern Timber is donating £5000 a year, for the next three years, to support the costs of Future Trees Trust’s work with sycamore. We will also feature Future Trees Trust’s work as part of our “Wood for the Trees” film series, to help...
The story behind Brimstone, our British-grown, thermally-modified timber
June 25, 2020
In 2016 Vastern Timber launched Brimstone. It's the first thermally-modified timber made from British grown hardwoods, a high quality timber cladding with a low environmental impact. Brimstone demonstrates that locally grown trees can become high performance timber products. Thermal modification transforms some of our most abund...
Brimstone Environmental Product Declaration: key information
November 21, 2019
Last month we published the Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for Brimstone on our website. It is now officially registered and published in the International EPD® System: S-P-01718 Brimstone cladding and decking boards *Please note that an update and further information was added to this page in 2022 The Brim...
Environmental Product Declaration: Brimstone Timber Cladding
October 7, 2019
In 2018 we commissioned the renowned sustainability consultants thinkstep to undertake a lifecycle analysis of our Brimstone products. After 18 months of data collection and number crunching we are proud to publish our Environmental Product Declaration, confirming that Brimstone is 'carbon positive'. This study was enabled by a g...
Vastern Timber to showcase Brimstone at Futurebuild 2019
December 17, 2018
Vastern Timber are set to exhibit their revolutionary Brimstone range at the auspicious Futurebuild show next March at London Excel. The Futurebuild show is one of the building sector’s most anticipated and respected events. It brings together some of the industry’s biggest thinkers and newest innovations to offer a glimpse int...
