Types of timber wood exports
TEAK
Teak or teak wood is one of the most valued, both by professionals and consumers. It is because of many of its characteristics: beautiful appearance, easy workability, great durability.
Common uses:
Decks of aircraft, ships and other large vessels. Manufacturing: joinery, piling, railway cars and sleepers, interior construction, heavy weather construction. Housing: door and window frames, stakes, house frames, parquet, furniture, floors. Containers for tanks, tubs, bathtubs, kitchens, for benches in laboratories and chemical plants and decorative plates, springs, poles for electrical transmission lines.
Turnery, musical instruments.
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
Resistance to compression: 570 kg/cm 2. Resistance to static bending: 1,000 kg/cm 2. Modulus of elasticity: 140,000 kg/cm 2.
Impregnability: Little impregnable sapwood, non-impregnatable heartwood.
Workability: Sawing: No problems. It can accelerate tool wear due to its high silica content. Drying: Slow, practically without risks of deformation or cracks.
Brushed: No problem. After being cut or brushed it smells like leather.
Gluing: Some problems can be found due to its natural resins or oils. In these cases it will be necessary to clean the surface. Finish: None beyond the presence of resins or oils typical of the wood.
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Basic density or specific gravity (D.O. Weight/vol. Green) (g/cm³) 0.53 (400)
Air dry density (weight and volume at 12% mc) (g/cm³) 0.61 (400) Normal tangential shrinkage (saturated at 12%mc) (%) 2.7 (400). Total tangential shrinkage (saturated at 0%mc) (%) 4.5 (400). Normal radial contraction (saturated at 12%mc) (%) 1.6 (400).
Total radial shrinkage (saturated at 0%mc) (%) 2.5 (400). Volumetric normal shrinkage (saturated at 12%mc) (%) 4.3 (400).
Volumetric total shrinkage (saturated at 0%mc) (%) 7.0 (400).
