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African Padouk Sawn Timber – Strong, Durable & Naturally Beautiful
African Padouk is a premium tropical hardwood well known for its striking reddish-orange to deep red color, excellent durability, and attractive natural grain. With its high resistance to decay and termites, Padouk is an excellent choice for high-end furniture, flooring, doors, staircases, decking, joinery, and decorative applications.
Basic attribute
English name: PADOUK
The Latin name: Pterocarpus soyauxii
Family: Pterocarpus
Origin: Gabon
Air-dry density: 0.62-0.82g/cm
Origin of name
Although its air-dry density is not as high as thatof rosewood,its appearance is very similar to thatof rosewood and its material is also similar, so it iscalled Padouk/African rosewood.
Origin of name
Although its air-dry density is not as high as thatof rosewood,its appearance is very similar to thatof rosewood and its material is also similar, so it iscalled Padouk/African rosewood.
Wood introduction
Logs
Paduck is a big arbor with a height of more than 30meters and a diameter of 1.5 meters,mainly distrib-uted in tropical countries such as Gabon.
Color
Its heartwood is obviously different. The new sectionof heartwood is blood red and orange. With thepassage of time,it turned purple brown.The sapwoodis white to yellowish brown.
Texture
The texture of Padouk is very beautiful. Straightand slightly interlaced, often with dark stripes. Thetexture of the chord section is corrugated and fullof lasting appeal. The texture of the radial sectionis irregular and has a strong sense of hierarchy
Character
The quality of Padouk is very good, similar to thatof mahogany.lt has the characteristics of highdensity, high hardness, high oil content and goodwear resistance.Listed as dark expensivehardwood furniture tree species.Padouk hasexcellent performance in processing performance.drying performance,stability and durability.
Easy processing,smooth sawing, smooth sawinggood gluing and nail gripping performance. Gooddrying performance, no defects, extremely stablesize after drying, Whether in the south or thenorth, it is not easy to crack and deform. Thedurability of heartwood is very good, and it ismore durable to put in a ventilated indoor ware-house.lt can effectively resist the invasion offungi, silverhsh, termites and aquatic borers.


Usage
Padouk has a wide range of uses, it's suitable forhigh-grade furniture, high-grade joinery, sculpture.fooring,musical instruments, tool handles, harbordocks, shipbuilding, etc.
Finished product display
The color of Padouk is bright red or dark red, andafter being painted with raw lacquer, it presents abronze color, with a kind of primitive beauty. lt isespecially suitable for making Chinese classical fur-niture and modern solid wood furniture.

Padouk is straight and round in appearance, long andbulky in specifcations, and the timber ratio of Padoukis more than 90% . lt is more used to make largeboards, showing natural and pure flavor
Market prospect
The market prospect of Padouk is generally optimis-tic. On the one hand, the wood itself has obviousadvantages, such as bright red and beautiful colorluster, aroma, moderate specifc gravity, compactmaterial, high strength, good stability, durability, hightimber ratio, etc. On the other hand, Southeast Asia,Africa and other places restrict the felling and exporof rosewood, which provides a very good develop-ment opportunity for Padouk ,which is similar withrosewood in materials.
HONG KONG SENHEDA WOOD LIMITED,we have been focusing on African wood business for 16 years ,Our variety include OKOUME, IROKO, SAPPELLY,ZEBRA, TALI, PADOUK, BOSSE, AZOBE, EYOUM,DABEMA, AFROMOSIA, TIAMA, OVANGOL, WENGE, KOSIPO, BILLINGA,TEAK,OKAN,etc.
Padouk AD/KD lumbers
Thickness: 25mm/50mm
Width: random width
Length: 2400 CM up
Quality: FAS
Origin: Gabon
Quantity: 1000 m3 can be ordered
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