TEAK is the popular name of the "Tectona grandis", native tree of the tropical forest of the Asian Southeast. Since times many old the teak has been one of the more valued wood of the world by being worked easily and for her resistence in the sun and the rain through long years.
          Tree of great load, it can reach superior height to 50 meters and diameter of up to 2,50 meters. Her straight trunk is covered by a thick peel, that it protects her of the fire.The leaves wake up attention for the size (up 60 x 80 cm) and for they fall in the station dries. Of easy cultivation and fast growth, the Teak is rustic and little susceptible to the attack of curses and diseases. The wood TEAK has high market value, due their exceptional properties:
          * weight and resistance: with medium density of 0,65 g/cm3 it is wood light, however resistant;
          * stability and durability: she doesn't feather and little she contracts during the drying; it is immune to the attack of termites and other insects; it can be buried or exposed at the time, without deteriorating;
          * appearance and use: easy to work, she has a very beautiful look; it is used in the production of pieces of furniture, doors and quality floors, decoration and shipbuilding;
          * price: excellent reaching US$ 800/m3 in log. It is much large than the one of the mahogany, that doesn' overcome the US$300,00/m3 in the same condition;
          * market: wide and with tendency to the growth, for the exhaustion of the quality wood originating from of the natural forest. The great world consumption of wood of TEAK originating from plantations confirms her quality and acceptance.

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          The reforestation of the TEAK is not an innovation; it has already been practiced there is more than 100 years in the Asin Southeast, covering about 2,5 million hectares.
          Brazil has great appropriate extensions to the planting of the Teak , in contrast with the areas of traditional plantation, that they face shortage of areas for enlargement of their reforestations.
          The tree is rustic and of easy cultivation and her wood has multiple used and great acceptance!

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