The Situation of Rubber Wood Furniture is Promising
Rubber wood, hailed as "ivory wood," has a light and uniform color with a natural ivory tone. It features beautiful patterns, fine texture, and good processing properties. It resists deformation and cracking, making it an excellent raw material for furniture. It can be paired with darker veneers from other tree species to create various designs, enhancing decorative effects and producing high-end furniture.
China is a major rubber tree planting country, ranking fourth in the world in terms of area, which can provide a large amount of high-quality timber for the furniture industry. The Hainan Tropical Crops Research Institute and the Chinese Academy of Forestry Sciences have made remarkable progress in the anti-corrosion and drying treatment of rubber wood. In production, China has established large-scale wood processing plants and furniture factories, producing a large number of rubber wood products and furniture.
However, overall, China still lags behind in terms of profit from rubber wood. From the perspective of the furniture industry, although the scale of factories manufacturing rubber wood furniture is growing larger, the technological content of the products is low, failing to highlight the unique advantages of the raw material. It is recommended to accelerate the introduction of advanced foreign equipment, technology, and management techniques in the design, manufacturing process, and market development of rubber wood furniture, using rubber wood as an important way to solve the raw material problem in China's furniture industry.
In the next century, China's furniture industry will play an extremely important role in the international furniture industry, with diversified furniture products themselves. As a sustainable "green product," the prospects of rubber wood are limitless. Southeast Asia, adjacent to China, has abundant rubber wood forests, and China has extensive subtropical and tropical regions, providing significant geographical advantages for developing rubber wood. Traditionally, the main product of rubber trees is rubber, with an economic life span of about 25-30 years. After renewal, they are replanted, making rubber wood a sustainable resource. The development and utilization of rubber wood have great potential.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Rubber Wood Furniture
With the skyrocketing prices of solid wood furniture and the scarcity of various high-end woods, rubber wood has gradually come into people's view. As mid-range furniture, what are the advantages and disadvantages of rubber wood furniture?
Advantages of Rubber Wood Furniture:
1. Rubber wood itself is not a precious wood; it is used after Southeast Asian rubber farmers cut down old rubber trees after latex extraction for building materials and furniture. Its growth cycle is not long, generally maturing in ten years, so it can be considered inexhaustible.
2. This wood is less likely to crack in dry areas in the north.
3. Rubber wood has good plasticity during furniture making, suitable for creating beautifully shaped, softly curved products.
4. Rubber wood has a good solid wood feel, with beautiful textures and uniform quality.
5. It has a light color, easy to stain and accept all types of coloring and coatings, easily matching the color tones of other woods, with good paint finishing performance.
6. It has good hardness and natural high-strength wear resistance, particularly suitable for stairs, floors, tables, countertops, etc.
Disadvantages of Rubber Wood Furniture:
1. Rubber wood is a tropical tree species, with medium hardness, material, texture, and performance among tree species.
2. Rubber wood has an odd smell, contains a lot of sugar, and is prone to discoloration, decay, and insect infestation. It dries slowly, wears easily, cracks easily, and bends and deforms easily, so the processing technology requirements for raw materials are very high. Currently, domestic technology does not match the processing levels of Thailand and Malaysia, and the domestic wood quality is slightly inferior to that of Southeast Asia.
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