Sungkai Wood

Sungkai wood is one timber species are very familiar in Indonesia. Therefore, sungkai wood is very often used by people for various purposes such as for making a variety of indoor furniture, veneer or even used as a timber to make a roof truss. In this case, wood sungkai been not without consideration, sungkai wood was chosen because, in general it is proven good quality, although not as good as the quality of teak or rosewood. However, as timber, wood quality sungkai is considered quite nice and also very favored by the workers, because sungkai wood can be easily worked or processed (shaped and cut) so there is no difficulty when processing it.
In addition, the other consideration is the price factor. When compared to the price of timber species such as teak or rosewood, timber prices sungkai relatively cheaper so more cost effective. And this makes the demand for wood sungkai always increasing day by day. Make the timber into the class of commercial timber species in Indonesia.
But, when compared to teak, sungkai still has some shortcomings, namely at the level of violence timber. Basically, it includes sungkai wood wood species with a very high level of violence so that the wood is so easy to crack or even break. In addition, another drawback of wood sungkai is no level of durability and strength. This includes the level of durability of wood is not too good and not too strong. Even in the classification released by the Ministry of Forestry, the durability of wood sungkai including grade III, while the power belongs to the class II to III. So, it is not recommended for use in places exposed to the sun with high intensity continuous and also use the space directly in contact with the ground (eg use for garden furniture).

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