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hardwood plywood & veneer 15,190 35.3 lime 1,920 4.5 mineral wool insulation 12,600 29.3 primary aluminum 80,170 186.5 softwood plywood & veneer 3,970 9.2 stone 1,430 3.3 virgin steel 10,390 24.2 wood lumber 2,700 6.3
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.
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).
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 :
Gross Income, Net Profits, Production, and price index in the Lumber Industry 1920 -1934 [57] Year Gross Income (In Millions Dollar) Net Profit (In Millions Dollar) Production (In Board feet) (In Millions) Wholesale Price Index (1926=100) 1920 3,312 N/A 35,000 N/A 1922 2,402 167 35,250 N/A 1924 2,835 132 39,500 99.3 1926 3,069 117 39,750 100.0 1928
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 ...
Global Wood Density Database; National Hardwood and Lumber Association; American Hardwood Information Center; American Hardwood Export Council; Australian National Association of Forest Industries
Mahogany is a straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwood species of the genus Swietenia, indigenous to the Americas [1] and part of the pantropical chinaberry family, Meliaceae. Mahogany is used commercially for a wide variety of goods, due to its coloring and durable nature.