| Wood modification process | Impact during processing | Impact during the service life |
| ThemoWood® | ¾ wood production consumes energy (in terms of electricity, gas, or biomass) since the treatment is based on heat production, and no chemicals are added (Ferreira et al., 2016). | - Fulfil the criteria of M1 (the best quality and emission class) class of Finnish emission classification of building material (Ala-Viikari and Mayes 2009)- Life cycle assessment (LCA) approved for ecological building material considering the production activities and its disposal at the end of the life cycle (Ala-Viikari, 2007) |
| Plato® | The effort for productive energy utilization:- A closed and circulated cooling water system- Isolated equipment- Flash unit that makes low pressure stem out of the condensate of medium pressure steam- During winter, heating is done by pumping the condensate of low-pressure steam through radiators | N/A |
| Oil heat treatment | Low environmental impact heat is introduced in the treatment system, and smokes from wood can be retrieved, condensed, and purified (Candelier et al., 2016) | Wood can be recycled without harmful impact on the environment (Candelier et al., 2016) |
| Accoya® | Low emissions compared to other typical building materials on a cradle-to-gate basis, such as aluminium, steel, PVC, concrete and ceramic tiles. The embodied emission of Accoya® are better than sustainably source woods and offer significant improvements against unsustainably sourced materials like plastics and metals (Trueman 2013). | - Lower carbon footprint than steel, concrete, and unsustainably source hardwood, and it is competitive in terms of carbon footprint with sustainably source hardwood (Bongers and Uphill 2019)- CO2 negative LCA over a full life cycle (Mantanis, 2017) |
| Kebony® | Use of furfuryl alcohol obtained from renewable hydrolyzed biomass waste and improvement of the polymerization process (Gérardin 2016) | It is recognized as exempt from the Biocidal Products Directory (BPD), given the absence of active compounds in the process (Jones, 2007). |
| Remarks: N/A data not available |