Frake hardwood

Fraké is een snelgroeiende loofhoutsoort, afkomstig uit verantwoord beheerde gecertificeerde bossen in West-Afrika. Platowood Fraké heeft een strakke, stijlvolle en moderne uitstraling. Het foutvrije houtoppervlak heeft een mooie vlamachtige tekening die door het veredelingsproces van Platowood ( platoniseren) nog . The wood is light yellow and does not have demarcated sapwood.

The grain is straight or interlocked and the texture is medium.

Sometimes it has brittleheart. Some logs have black greyish heartwoo more or less veined. Density at moisture content: 0. The blunting effect is normal (sometimes quite high ) . The heartwood is grey to pale yellow or pinkish white, darkening to pale reddish brown, occasionally with a nearly black inner part. Fraké is a fast-growing hardwood , originating from responsibly maintained FSC forests in West-Africa.

The flawless wood surface has a beautiful flame-like patterned grain which is accentuated by the Platowood finishing process. In some batches of Fraké , black lines and an presence of pinholes, give .

Platowood fraké FSC Madrid is een horizontaal te plaatsen geplatoniseerd blokprofiel met korte tand voor gevelbekleding. Het geschaafde planchet in geplatoniseerd fraké FSC heeft een glad oppervlak. ArborClad Thermo-D Frake Hardwood comes from the Idigbo family and is more commonly known in the UK and Europe as Frake (sometimes also referred to as Black Afara Cladding). Fraké noir, is de merknaam voor thermisch verduurzaamd Limba.

Door de behandeling krijgt het hout ook zijn specifieke kleur en tevens de warme en . COMBRETACEAE (angiosperm). Family: Scientific name(s): Terminalia superba. Commercial restriction: no commercial restriction.

Color: Sapwood: Texture:. Wood with such darker figuring is referred to as Black Limba, while plain unfigured wood is called White Limba. Sapwood is a pale greyish to yellowish brown, not clearly demarcated from the . Limba is a West African hardwood with many names and many looks. In Ghana it is called ofram, while on the Ivory Coast it is known as frake , akom in Cameroon and afara in Nigeria. In the United States, limba is often called korina, a copyrighted name used originally for limba plywoo according to the . Door middel van stoom en temperatuur worden de aanwezige eigenschappen in het hout versterkt, zonder toevoeging van chemicaliën.

De methode is gebaseerd.

Tropical timber supplier Ecochoice Ltd has brought a new thermally-treated hardwood to market in the UK to alleviate the pressure on “over exploited” cladding species. Forest Stewardship Council-certified frake from west Africa is the first. The permeability of a timber species is not really an issue for thermal treatment and a properly performed treatment in good.

Frake has a pale yellowish white heartwood and sapwood. Often strongly streaked with black.