Kosipo
Entandrophragma Candollei
The wood is red brown with purplish shades and darkens when exposed to light. The texture is coarse with slight interlocked grain. The aspect resembles Sapele.
Origin: Cameroon
Possible end-uses: plywood, interior and exterior joinery, sliced and peeled veneers, furniture
Marketing: Sawnwood
Physical and mechanical properties: Fine texture, straight grain as a rule, semi-hard, moderately nervous, rather elastic
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Niove
Staudtia stipitata
Perfect wood of yellowish orange-brown colour with veins in darker shades. Occasionally oily surface. Curly grain may occur.
Origin: Cameroon
Possible end-uses: heavy carpentry, flooring, hydraulic works, exterior panelling,
Marketing: Logs and sawnwood
Physical and mechanical properties: Hard to very hard wood. Nervous, fissile and with excellent shock-resistance
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Eyong
Piptadeniastrum africanum
Light brown wood going towards dark brown on exposure, with a particular odour when green.
Origin: Cameroon
Possible end-uses: furniture, flooring, veneers, interior joinery
Marketing: Logs
Physical and mechanical properties: Semi-hard wood, nervous, quite fissile and elastic
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Iatandza
Albizia ferruginea
Perfect wood (Duramen) with a brow yellow to dark reddish brown colour, with golden glints. Slightly interlocked grain.
Origin: CameroonPossible end-uses: Light carpentry, interior joinery, veneers and plywood, stairs
Marketing: Sawnwood
Physical and mechanical properties: Good stability, tends to split when nailing
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Okoumé
Aucumea klaineana
Natural colour: light salmon to dark pink, darkening when exposed to light. Fine to medium texture. Slightly interlocked to interlocked grain. Fine silver grain.
With its production of more than 220 000 m3 per year, ROUGIER is one of the world’s leading Okoume producers.
Origin: Gabon
Possible end-uses: plywood, furniture, veneer, joinery
Marketing: Sawnwood and plywood
Physical and mechanical properties: Widely recognised as one the world’s best materials for rotary cut veneers, Okoume timber is easy to work and is as suitable for the manufacturing of furniture as for interior joinery.
Moreover, it is a species of a very even colour, good bonding performances and good compatibility with finished products.Download the CIRAD’s technical data sheet
