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Okoume

Additional names:

Gaboon, Gabun

Origin:

Africa (Gabon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea)

Color:

Evenly light red to pink-gray, natural gloss.

Characteristics:

Coarsely structured, weak and irregular alternating spiral growth, otherwise very homogeneous. Some strikingly twisted pore grooves in longitudinal section.

Application:

Peeled wood, furniture making, cigar boxes. Veneer as intermediate layers or cover veneer for veneer and wood core plywood or door leaves.

Did you know ...

... that managed forests, thanks to their high proportion of young, strong, growing trees, enable CO2 to be extracted?

... that an old, unmanaged forest produces as much CO2 through processes of decomposition and decay as it stores, and that therefore an unmanaged forest contributes nothing to reducing global CO2?

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