The company has its roots in Wood Polymer Technologies (WPT), which was founded in 1996 and changed its name to Kebony in 2007.

[1][2] Kebony has developed an environmentally friendly technology which provides an alternative to threatened and endangered tropical hardwoods, and traditional impregnated wood.

In the process, a liquid byproduct of the sugar industry, furfuryl alcohol,[3] is used to treat the wood.

The woods used are FSC-certified,[4] PEFC-certified and carry the Nordic Ecolabel "the Swan".

The technology has been described in multiple articles in media such as CNN,[5][6] BBC,[7] The Economist[8] and Financial Times.