Nevertheless there are high demand for this wood from year to year, which directly proves that the producers are realized how beneficial sengon wood is. The nature of its fragility makes this wood can not be used directly to make product’s materials. The characteristic of this wood is hard to be finished, furry, has large pores, and can be broke easily. Albasia wood is included in the list of soft wood due to its characteristic. Sengon or Albasia is basically a tropical wood, you can find it easily in the form of raft or board. With those characteristics, merbau wood is very suitable for building and construction materials. Surprisingly, merbau woods resistance can be applied as a marine construction materials. The price itself is very competitive with teak wood. Other function of teak wood is: this wood can produce a rusty product, very suitable to make classy materials, furniture, or carvings.ĭue to its hardness and durability, Merbau wood is functioned to make floor materials, a building’s pole, a truck back part, until a bridge-making materials. Meanwhile the small pores on teak wood makes it can be finished smoothly and its density is a favorite thing for those who like carvings. Teak tree contains teak oil and it becomes a factor which makes teak wood has termite resistance characteristics. Teak wood is famous for its strength and density and it affects this wood’s durability. Central Java is a perfect place to plant and produce a high-quality teak wood because that region has a high temperature and calcareous soil, which is very supportive for teak tree to grow up well. Luckily teak woods tree grew well in Java island (from West to East Java) which has a hot temperature. Actually teak wood is not originally from Indonesia, it ia brought by Dutch to Indonesia during 1800s.

This wood has a brown color and dark-brown color for its veins, those veins have space from one another. This teak tree often used as a benchmark to measure other woods’ quality.

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