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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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Meranti

TROPICAL HARDWOOD

 Meranti Timber

Family:

 Moraceae

Latin Name:

 Chlorophora excelsa

Distribution:

Uses:

 Exterior and interior joinery, shopfitting, boatbuilding and flooring. When treated, for exterior cladding and for use in exposed situations. Otherwise same uses as for light red meranti. Rotary cut for plywood manufacture and sliced for decorative veneers.

General Description:
The heartwood colour is medium to dark red brown with conspicuous white dammar or resin streaks. Grain is interlocked; texture rather coarse. Brittleheart can be present. Weight from 580-770 kg/m3 (36-48 lb/ft3) average 670 kg/m3 (42 lb/ft3); specific gravity .67.  

Mechanical Properties:
The wood has medium bending and crushing strengths, but the stiffness factor is low and also low resistance to shock loads. Severe buckling occurs in steam bending and distortion during drying. The steam bending classification is poor.  

Seasoning:
Slower drying than light meranti, with tendency to distort and risk of splitting and checking in thicker material. There is small movement in service.  

Durability:
Sapwood liable to attack by powder post beetle. All species are moderately durable to durable, and from moderately resistant to extremely resistant to preservative treatment.  

Other Names:

Nemesu (No.1 only) Malaysia; dark red lauan (Nos. 4 to 7) UK and Philippines; red lauan (No. 4) Philippines; tangile and bataan (No. 5 only) Philippines; mayapis (No. 6 and part No. 5) and tiaong (No. 7) Philippines; oba suluk (No. 1) Sabah.