African Hard & Soft Wood Timber/Logs/Sawn WOod

Azobe Rough Sawn Logs/Timber for sale

Description
When fresh Azobé’s heartwood is reddish-brown, discolouring to dark-red and chocolate-brown, sometimes to a violet-coloured dark red-brown. Azobé has markedly white to yellow coloured constituents in the pores. In general, the structure is fairly regular.

Properties of this timber species
General
Botanical name: Lophira alata
ATIBT name: Azobé
Other names: Ekki, Bongossi
Quality requirements
Azobé is listed in the Dutch norm NEN 5493 ‘Quality Requirements For Hardwoods In Road Construction Works, Hydraulic Engineering Works And Other Structural Applications’.

Strength class
Azobé quality class Category 3/Tropical/NEN 5493 is classed in strength class D70 (NEN-EN 338).

Uses
Because of its great strength, consistency and durability, Azobé is widely used as construction material in hydraulic engineering for lock gates, fendering, flood-control, jetties, bridges, bridge decks, shore piling, purlins, webbing, noise barriers, dragline mats, bottom boards and support structures for heavy machinery
In more recent years it has been used extensively for constructional elements in galleries and parking decks in housing projects because of its good strength and fire-resistant qualities
Durability
Resistance to fungi: class 1 (very durable)
Resistance to insects: Termites probably class D (sapwood and heartwood very durable), Marine borers class D in Northern European conditions and class M (moderately durable) in Southern European conditions

Density
(940)-1060-(1100) kg/m3 at 12% moisture content
Fresh 1100-1300 kg/m3on wood must be eliminated.

Bubinga Available

We have fresh cut rough sawn bubinga logs
very competitive prices
Ship worlwide
Loaing in containers.

Description of the log
Diameter: 90 to 150 cm
Sapwood thickness: 2 to 8 cm
Buoyancy: not buoyant
Physical properties
Density: 0.92
Monnin hardness: 10.2
Coefficient. Volume shrinkage: 0.62%
Total tangential shrinkage: 7.9%
Total radial shrinkage: 5.5%
Fiber saturation point: 24%

Uses
Luxury furniture
Interior and exterior carpentry
Heavy framework
Parquet
Bottom of vehicle or container
Sleepers
Seats
Stairs (inside)
Items shot
Current furniture
Sliced ​​veneer
Paneling

Welcome To African Woods!
African Woods is a Proprietorship Firm that is engaged in retailing, wholesaling and export of premium trade quality West African Timber (rough saww logs/lumber)in a range of top wood species including Teak, Sapele (Mahogany), Okan, Padauk, Ebony, Movingui, among others.
Founded more than 30 years ago as a small wood supplier in Cameroon, Douala, CameroonTimberExportSarl is now the biggest exporter & supplier of high-quality African wood logs & timber, with export to over 20 countries in the world. As of now, our Cameroon sawmill factory has 100+ experienced workers and our average monthly capacity is 3000 m3.

Welcome To African Woods!
African Woods is a Proprietorship Firm that is engaged in retailing, wholesaling and export of premium trade quality West African Timber (rough saww logs/lumber)in a range of top wood species including Teak, Sapele (Mahogany), Okan, Padauk, Ebony, Movingui, among others.

Founded more than 30 years ago as a small wood supplier in Cameroon, Douala, CameroonTimberExportSarl is now the biggest exporter & supplier of high-quality African wood logs & timber, with export to over 20 countries in the world. As of now, our Cameroon sawmill factory has 100+ experienced workers and our average monthly capacity is 3000 m3.