Dark Red Meranti Wood By Bansal Forest Products Pvt. Ltd.

We are known as the reputed organization in this field of operation, engaged in offering a wide array of excellent quality Dark Red Meranti Wood. The offered wood is highly popular in all over the world for constructing furniture. This wood is preferably used for making boat building, plywood, interior furniture, concrete forms, veneer, etc. To meet the diverse need of our precious clients, we offer this Dark Red Meranti Wood in various shapes and sizes at affordable price.Features: Perfect finish High strength Weather resistance Durability Trade Name                  :           Dark Red Meranti Family                          :           Dipterocarpaceae Timber Classification   :           Light hardwood Species : Shorea acuminata (meranti rambai daun) S. curtisii (meranti seraya) S. pauciflora (meranti nemusu) S. hemseleyana (meranti daun besar) S. singkawang (meranti sengkawang merah) S singkawang var. scabrosa (meranti sengkawang bulu) S. macrantha (meranti kepong hantu) S. palembanica (meranti tengkawang ayer) S. platycarpa (meranti paya)(part) S. platyclados (meranti bulkit) S. ovata (meranti sarang punai bukit).  Wood Density     :      560-865 kg m3 air dry Strength Grouping       : S. G. 5 Uses: Extremely popular general quality timber. Suitable for furniture manufacture, high class interior finishing, flooring, panelling and partitioning, mouldings and skirtings, fancy doors, sliced and rotary cut veneers. Distribution:As there are so many species, their distribution may vary from species to species. S. platycarpa is commonly found in islands of drier soil or low-lying areas near the swamps; S. curtissi is found to be gregarious on the tops and upper slopes of ridges from about 180 to 1100 m; S. pauciflora, S. acuminata and S. singkawang can be found in low-lying but well-drained jungles and also occasionally in higher altitudes. S. platyclados and S. ovata are two species confined mainly to upper diptercocarp forest zones at an altitude of between 760 to 1070 m. Major producing states:Perak, Kelantan, Pahang, Kedah and Johore. Wood Characteristics:Heartwood dark pink-brown, dark-red and weathering to dark red-brown. Sapwood yellowish with a grey tinge and distinct. Planed surface lustrous with prominent stripe figure. Texture  coarse and even. Grain interlocked and sometimes wavy. Canals with white-coloured resin may be seen on the surface. Pin holes may be prominent on some species.