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Wood used for INFRADOC® cabin production

Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) is unique among softwoods. It's heartwood contains high levels of Thujaplicans and water-soluble phenolics — natural fungicides creating resistance to rot. Additionally, Western Red Cedar is the best thermal insulator among the commonly available softwood species. Western red cedar is one of the most dimensionally stable of all softwoods.

Western Red Cedar

  • Common name

    Western red cedar (Latin - Thuja plicata)

  • Other names

    Red cedar, Canadian Western red cedar

  • Country of origin

    Canada, Western part of USA

  • Description

    Western red cedar heartwood shows variations in colour when fresh from dark brown to pink colour, maturing to a reddish-brown and, in time to silver-grey when weathered. Straight grained and rather coarse texture. Naturally decay resistant, light weight, straight and it has the lowest expansion ratio of any wood species. Western red cedar is natural antiseptic, it's essential oils has antibacterial effect.

Western Red CedarWestern Red Cedar (Thuja Plicata) is renowned for its natural beauty and outstanding physical properties that make it one of the world's most unique softwood species. This exceptionally beautiful wood has natural colouring in mellow ambers, reddish cinnamons and rich sienna browns. Its warm colouring is complimented by a uniform, fine-grained texture with a satin luster.

Indoors, cedar's dimensional stability and its appearance makes it perfectly suited to a variety of uses including window blinds, panelling, mouldings and sauna panelling. The wood's cellular structure incorporates interior air spaces that give it an insulation value higher than most woods. Western red cedar also has excellent sound suppression and absorption qualities.

Western red Cedar processing

Western Red CedarUnlike other infrared sauna manufacturers, INFRADOC® has one very significant difference. Mostly the cedar that is cut and to be dried it's put to the high-temperature thermal cabins or stoves to accelerate the drying process. The disadvantage of this method of drying is that all natural essential oils kept inside the wood is burning out with water molecules under the high-temperatures.

The cedar that is used for INFRADOC® cabin production is naturally dried for minimum of 6 weeks under the sun to preserve the wood's natural state. This method also guarantees that the wood will keep all essential oils that has the unique ability to kill bacteria and mold, keeping your sauna smelling fresh. The wood will never bend out of form, crack or lose its colour. The rich, inviting aroma of grade-A cedar will smell the same from the time you first brought it into your home; so natural and pleasing to be surrounded by. Cedar has been used over the centuries because of its ability to be anti-bacterial and naturally keep away pests and insects.

INFRADOC certificates

We also care about nature, that is why we use cedar trees over 300 years old, only from certified wood suppliers for INFRADOC® sauna production to keep forest natural renovation process.

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