Tropical Hardwood Species Malaysia

Tropical plywood export prices from leading exporters 1990 1999.

Tropical hardwood species malaysia. Brazil s exports are of tropical hardwoods and softwoods and the trend line is an average covering both. Malaysian blackwood is also favored for acoustic guitars and is said to be an excellent tonewood. Radial shrinkage averaging 1 8 and tangential shrinkage averaging 3 5. In malaysia the importance of the home market in the utilization of the lks in a situation of dwindling forest resources and a well developed timber industry is further illustrated by the experience in peninsular malaysia.

Click to see all full inventory with images prices. There are many different kinds of tropical hardwoods to choose from. Click 1 source in usa. The timber is a light hardwood with a density of 640 880 kg m3 air dry.

Each species has its own unique set of characteristics color grain pattern etc. Shorea is a tropical hardwood found and developed in south east asia. We ve collected and produced some detailed information about tropical hardwood species below. The core business activity of harwood biomass resources is the export rough sawn timbers tropical hardwood species such as acacia from planted forest project meranti keruin kapur selangan batu kempass and mlh species either.

Figure 5 2 illustrates the trend in tropical plywood prices from indonesia malaysia and brazil. Nonetheless despite the semantic quirks of the wood s common and scientific names malaysian blackwood remains a remarkably beautiful hardwood with unique patterns and coloration that are in a class by itself. Discounts available for 2 or more. The tallest documented tropical angiosperm is an 88 3 m tall shorea faguetiana in the tawau hills national park in sabah on the island of borneo and in that park at least five other species of the genus have been measured to be over 80 m tall.

We know where to find them how to use them and how to. Texture is moderately coarse and even with interlocked grain. Our award winning premium quality malaysian tropical hardwood plywood is produced in a variety of types grades sizes and thicknesses to suit our clients needs. At that time sawmills and plywood mills were processing over 100 species of tropical wood.

It prospers most commonly in indonesia but can also be seen in malaysia the philippines and certain parts of northern india. New pieces added online. Here at durable wood products we ve been dealing with tropical hardwoods for many years.