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Timber - Optiwood

Our Opti Wood windows and doors are manufactured using premium qality scandinavian pine with a 90% heartwood content.
Our products are fully factory finished in a selection of standard Colours and stains combining the natural beauty of timber with the advantages of modern technology.

OPTI WOOD

Optiwood Working with a natural material such as wood means taking our environmental responsibilities very seriously. We do this by conserving resources, selecting wood at the highest available quality and by exceeding environmental compliance regulations.
Opti-Wood is a unique process developed and registered by Storke Vinduer to ensure only the best material is used in our windows and doors. After selecting only premium quality wood, this process then scans, identifies and eliminates any imperfections leaving you with a flawless finish.

We use only slow growing trees from managed Scandinavian forests where the rate of replanting is greater than that of felling.

Scandinavian Pine

The pine tree is by far the largest and most important variety of all the coniferous, providing more resin, paper pulp and building timber than any other tree family. Evergreen and resinous, the pine’s thick and scaly bark provides a protective layer around the sapwood and heartwood interior.

Sapwood is the youngest part of the tree and is generally softer due to its conduction of water and fluids. Recognizable by its texture, it is lighter than the inner heartwood, is low in resin content and has very few knots. As the tree grows in diameter, the innermost layers of sapwood become heartwood and new sapwood is produced on the inside of the woody stem.

The quality and specification of the wood required for all Senator’s Timber Products is of a premium standard. Length and size are also important and so by completely scanning the source material, we can identify and select the highest content of heartwood for use in the end product.

10 moisture measurements are taken per centimetre and inferior wood is rejected. The selected wood is planed, scanned and filmed so that any knots, cracks, pockets of resin and other defects are revealed. After the scanning process, the wood is cut and defects are removed. The pure wood is then press bonded together into 6-metre lengths called comb joints, which form the “building blocks” of our products.

Comb joints have many technical and aesthetic advantages. They have great stability and strength as well as a uniform surface, with only a few small knots on visible surfaces and a very minimal risk of resin content.

As a tree increases in age and diameter an inner portion of the sapwood becomes inactive and finally ceases to function, as the cells die. This inert or dead portion is called heartwood. Its name derives solely from its position and not from any vital importance to the tree. Full of preservation fluids such as resin, the heartwood section is much harder in texture. While knots from the tree’s early years are clearly visible in the heartwood, these are removed by our unique Opti-Wood process, leaving the wood flawless and ideal for manufacturing doors and windows.