With a beautiful butter yellow to brown yellow color and graying effects that take a wooden facade to a higher level, Iroko is a favorite among professionals. Iroko wood is known for its excellent strength, durability and minimal impact. These properties make it suitable for a wide range of applications, both indoors and outdoors. This includes window frames, windows, doors, wooden cladding, interior panelling, stairs, steps, furniture, body and wagon construction, and more. With its vague resemblance to Teak, Iroko is also called “African Teak”, but this name can be misleading due to its durability class. The freshly sawn heartwood has a beautiful butter yellow to brown yellow color, sometimes with dark zones. The light-colored sapwood forms a clear contrast with the heartwood and is 50 to 100 mm wide. A remarkable feature of Iroko is the even graying process, which ensures a breathtaking end result for wooden facades.
| Name | Iroko |
| Growth area | Tropical Africa |
| Botanical name | Milicia excelsa |
| Durability class | Heartwood class I – 2 |
| Strength class | D40 |
| Fire class facade cladding | D-s2 |
| Artificially dried | Does not apply |
| Voluminous mass | (470-)650(-850) kg/m3 at 12% moisture content, fresh 950-1200 kg/m3 (moisture content approximately 85 |
| Suitable for | Work both indoors and outdoors, such as window frames, windows, doors, facade paneling, parquet floors, interior panelling, stairs, steps, furniture, laboratory tables (preferably composed of quarter-sawn parts), bodywork for the chemical industry, yacht and shipbuilding (frames). , decks, skins and paneling), body and wagon construction, turning and sculpture. |
| To edit | Iroko is easy to work with, both by hand and by machine. The tools become dull less quickly than with teak, provided it does not contain lime inclusions. |
Iroko wood is known for its excellent workability, both by hand and machine. In contrast to Teak, tools are less likely to dull when working with Iroko, provided there are no lime inclusions present. Forming profiles, creating mortise and tenon joints, drilling and turning pose no problems with this versatile wood. However, it is essential to ensure good extraction during the machining process, especially for sensitive persons, to avoid possible health problems.
Iroko logs and wet wood often have large internal stresses, which can lead to warping of certain parts during processing. However, once the wood has been processed and properly dried, Iroko offers exceptional stability that lasts for a long time.
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| Iroko FAS KD | |||||||
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| 90mm (width) | 105mm (width) | 130mm (width) | 155mm (width) | 180mm (width) | 205mm (width) | Falling wide | |
| 46mm (thickness) | X | X | |||||
| 52mm (thickness) | X | X | X | ||||
| 65mm (thickness) | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| 80mm (thickness) | X | X | X | X | X | ||
| 105mm (thickness) | X | X | X | X | X |
| Iroko Komt finger jointed KD | ||||||
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| 86mm (width) | 96mm (width) | 98mm (width) | 120mm (width) | 144mm (width) | Length | |
| 44mm (thickness) | X | 600 cm | ||||
| 62mm (thickness) | X | X | 600 cm | |||
| 71mm (thickness) | X | 600 cm | ||||
| 72mm (thickness) | X | X | X | 600 cm | ||
| 95mm (thickness) | X | X | X | 600 cm |
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