“…A particularly promising area of application is the modification of soft and fast-growing types of wood to optimize their properties so that they can be used as a substitute for harder and slow-growing tropical wood to protect the rainforest . Therefore, the chemical modification of wood has attracted more and more interest in recent years, which is evident from a distinct increase in fundamental research and development leading to a number of industrially used processes. ,,,− Especially, the well-known acetylation of wood (ACCOYA process), ,,,− implementation with the urea derivative DMDHEU (BELMADUR process), ,,− and impregnation with furfuryl alcohol (KEBONY process) ,,,,, have been studied and optimized extensively. From a chemical point of view, these methods are fairly simple and can be easily implemented in terms of process technology: The wood modifications are carried out in vacuum tanks with subsequent drying.…”