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2. Tropical timber - Wikipedia

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   Tropical timber may refer to any type of timber or wood that grows in tropical rainforests and tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests and is harvested there. Typical examples of worldwide industrial significance include, among others, the following hardwoods :

3. List of woods - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of woods, most commonly used in the timber and lumber trade. Soft woods (coniferous) Araucaria. Hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii)

4. Plywood - Wikipedia

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   Tropical plywood is superior to softwood plywood due to its density, strength, evenness of layers, and high quality. It is usually sold at a premium in many markets if manufactured with high standards. Tropical plywood is widely used in the UK, Japan, United States, Taiwan, Korea, Dubai, and other countries worldwide.

5. Hardwood - Wikipedia

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   In the past, tropical hardwoods were easily available, but the supply of some species, such as Burma teak and mahogany, is now becoming scarce due to over-exploitation. Cheaper "hardwood" doors, for instance, now consist of a thin veneer bonded to a core of softwood, plywood or medium-density fibreboard (MDF).

6. Wood industry - Wikipedia

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   In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...

7. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Aguilar, Francisco Xavier. "Factors Influencing the Spatial Distribution of Natural Resource-based Industries: The Softwood Lumber Industry in the United States South" (PhD dissertation, Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College; ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2007. 29120767). Benson, Barbara Ellen.

8. Lumber - Wikipedia

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   This "quarter" system is rarely used for softwood lumber; although softwood decking is sometimes sold as 5/4, even though it is actually one inch thick (from milling 1 ⁄ 8 in or 3.2 mm off each side in a motorized planing step of production). The "quarter" system of reference is a traditional North American lumber industry nomenclature used ...

9. Mahogany - Wikipedia

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   Mahogany is a commercially important lumber prized for its beauty, durability, and color, and used for paneling and to make furniture, boats, musical instruments and other items. The leading importer of mahogany is the United States, followed by Britain; [ 1 ] while the largest exporter today is Peru , which surpassed Brazil after that country ...