Archive: June 2020
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...
Vastern Timber wins £50K research and development grant from The Forestry Commission
November 12, 2018
The Forestry Commission has awarded Vastern Timber a significant grant for the technical development of it’s thermally modified timber (TMT) brand Brimstone. The figure of £50,000 is in addition to £25,000 already committed to the project by Vastern Timber itself. The grant will be used to undergo the rigorous testing needed to...
