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Smee Timber Ltd is established as one of Britain's leading and most comprehensive hardwood importing and manufacturing companies, offering an enormous choice of timber to manufacturers and users.

 

 

 

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Agba

TROPICAL HARDWOOD

 Agba Timber

Family:

 Leguminosae

Latin Name:

 Gossweilerodendron balsamiferum

Distribution:

 Tropical West Africa

Uses:

 Interior and exterior joinery, boatbuilding, shopfitting, flooring, panelling, furniture, mouldings, coachwork, coffins, laminated frameworks, turnery. Resinous odour prevents use in contact with foodstuffs. Selected logs sliced for veneers.

General Description:
Agba's heartwood is pale pinkish-straw to tan coloured; grain straight to wavy or moderately interlocked, fine textured. Weight average 520 kg/m3 (32 lb/ft3); specific gra vity .52.  

Mechanical Properties:
Brittleheart is extensive in larger logs. Agba's bending strength is low, resistance to shock loads is also low, with very low stiffness and medium crushing strength; bending classification is only moderate.  

Seasoning:
Dries fairly rapidly with little degrade and small movement in service, but exudes oleo resin or gum from pockets and high temperatures should be avoided.  

Durability:
This durable timber is very resistant to decay but the sapwood is liable to attack by common furniture beetle. It is resistant to preservative treatment, but the sapwood is permeable.  

Other Names:

“Nigerian Cedar” (UK); Mutsekamambole (Nigeria); Nitola (Congo)