Red Lauan Tropical Hardwood
Specific gravity at 12 of wood moisture.
Red lauan tropical hardwood. Luan also spelled lauan refers to a tropical hardwood plywood product usually made from trees in the shorea family. It is coarse grained with large pores. 650 class of resistance to fungi. While the name lauan is commonly used when referring to plywood made of this type of wood it s also frequently called philippine mahogany though meranti lauan bears no relation to what is considered to be true mahogany in the swietenia.
The wood name lauan is a loose term that applies to a number of wood species coming from southeast asia. It has many home and hobby applications and is readily available at. Dark red meranti is sometimes referred to as red lauan wood in the shorea genus is very commonly used in southeast asia and there is an abundance of variety between the difference species. When the forests of the philippines were no longer productive the logging companies moved on to the other islands.
The heartwood can vary from a dark red purple to a straw yellow or pale white. The dark woods are known as red lauan and the light woods are called white lauan. Shorea polysperma shorea negrosensis espèces appartenant au sous genre rubroshorea. It ranges in color from dark rich red through light pink to pale grayish brown.
It is a heavy hardwood. Another common name for this wood is meranti. In fact meranti in the form of lauan plywood is the largest traded tropical hardwood product in the world. Although coarser in texture and softer than true mahogany lauan is actually of the same strength.