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Itauba

Common Name: Itauba
Scientific Name: Mezilaurus Itauba
Family: Lauraceae

General Characteristics:
Heavy wood, hard and few difficult to saw (stiletted saws recommended) but easy to smooth, it produces excellent finishing. It has medium and uniform texture and it carries high mechanical resistance and extreme durability. When recently beneficiated, its sift presents olive-yellowish, becoming dark chestnut color with time. It has uniform color and irregularly lustrous and flat surface to the touch. Its smell is lightly sweetened and pleasant, almost imperceptible in the wood recently beneficiated, disappearing in little time.

Main Applications:
Itauba wood, because of being very heavy, of low retractibillity in relation to the density, high mechanical resistance and very high durability, is indicated for external constructions, as structures of bridges, sleepers, posts, crosspieces; in civil construction, as beams, light frames, parquets and floorboards, sills for doors and windows; construction of vehicles and agricultural implements; naval construction, embarkations; production of shaped pieces, pieces of furniture, etc.

 

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