About Teak Wood
 Teak Tree or Tectona is one of tropical hardwood birch, which included in family Verbenaceae. This tree is the original plantation of South East Asia area. This Teak tree can grow big and height until 30 - 40 m. To live, this tree always aborts its leaves every year at dry season. This tree age is very length that is finite about hundreds of year. Teak tree is noted for the strong tenacity to various changes of weather and season. It is because this tree has big flexing capable to fight against the high air pressure without any cracked.
The Teak tree resin has typical oil in its Galih (Cambium /heartwood) contain of water resistant. This content can refuse all of rottenness types, insect of wood or moths, and antibacterial. The combination of unique Teak tree content equipped with thick fibers and solid, make its easier to cut and formed. Because it's special characteristic of Teak tree, which is not owned by the other trees, hence a lot of consumer interesting to exploit this wood for various furniture types. The characteristic of original teak from South-East Asia forests is the height up to 150 feet, have harsh and wide leaf skin, reddish green, its heartwood is dark gold, and almost dark brown. One of teak producer area is Indonesia, India, Myanmar, Philippine, Malaysia, and other states in South-East Asia. Indonesia self is teak feeder which has the highest quality in the world.
 Cultivation and conservation of Teak tree in Indonesia has managed by government of Indonesia, Perum Perhutani (Forestation Company of Government). The most Teak producer area in Indonesia is Java. Beside its farm and weather in Java hardly support the Teak tree plantation; Java Island is also the business area, government center and many furniture workers who can change the teak bar to become unique furniture. To get teak wood with high quality, there are some things that must be paid attention in retrieval process of the wood from its tree. The old Teak tree or up to 40 years old is the proper tree to be cut. The older Teak tree will increase its quality of wood. Before cutting away Teak tree, there is something that need to done that is dry the water content from its tree by make scratch at under side or tear up its external resist. This process needs time 1 to 2 years, in order to get the real dry Teak tree and can be cut to Teak wood, which already to use as the main material of furniture and the other product.
In India, Teak wood applied to make doorframes, window, furniture, light holes, etc. In Denmark, the price of furniture, which its main material is teak wood, has always increased. While in Indonesia, Teak wood is exported to abroad or also use as furniture main material.
The Teak Esthetics And Characteristic
 The most Teak characteristic is its resistance in all weather. Because its character which is not easy to decay and anti moth, hence teak is often applied as furniture main material both for indoor and also outdoor. This wood can go along way though must stay outdoor during years. Beside that, because it has special aroma, teak is frequently selected as the main material of deck of ship and cruiser.
This wood has a real strong resistance, so that it is not easy to weak by snow, ice, the sun, rain, temperature, cool and air dampness. This thing is one of big consideration that Teak wood is selected as the main material of ship decks, because it can fight against the weather than other wood.
 The other characteristic of the teak is the elastic and solid fiber, so that it facilitates the workers to create their various creations. During for centuries, this wood is trusted as furniture main material with high quality, as known as one of the strongest hardwood and most durable wood.
Beside that, because it has special oil content in its heartwood, teak wood always seen to gleam and can maintain its beauty although it stays out of room for long time. But Teak wood with its antibacterial and mushroom characters will not be brittle or its quality has decline. The furniture owner who has teak wood main material is not necessarily add material or preservative layer at the furniture, because the teak wood have been very strong for all conditions and season. Just for the beauty form of the furniture, it needs to polish some varnish or grey color.
Teak Wood In The World View
 Have been through years even for centuries, teak wood is trusted to become the only strong wood in the world. This wood is hardly liked by the lovers and collector furniture in the world. Because it's rareness and limited supply of teak in the world, teak is always hunted and always experience increase of price. The reputation of Teak has been confessed in whole world as the high quality of furniture main material.
Indonesia as the biggest teak supplier in the world, always tries to preserve Teak tree through government program that always emboldened. It is through Perum Perhutani observation; Indonesia can supply Teak woods for exported. Non only that, because of the skillful hands the workers, Indonesia also can yield various unique and interesting furniture products with typical design of Indonesia which confessed by the world have high artistic value. Indonesia Furniture is done by carefully and beautiful; have been able to compete in international marketing and hunted by the whole furniture consumers in the world. There are a lot of demands from international level for Indonesia furniture products, because the main material factor that is from teak wood as well as the typical artistic value.
 The charm and checked hunter teak furniture hunters know the teak characteristic. They always peep at Indonesia product, which have been known that its teak is the highest quality in world. The demands of Teak wood that always increase, have forced the government for the plantation program of Teak tree.
The reason is because teak plant is perennial plant that has a real economic product. Construction material and furniture that coming from teak wood have certain market class with high sale value. Generally, teak plants are harvested after their age more than ten years. But, the new technology has yielded certain Teak types called 'Jati Genjah' (Fast Growing) with good quality of product. This thing will assist Indonesia as the permanent supplier teak in the world.
 The strength and beauty of its fiber is the primary factor that makes Teak wood as the main choice of the furniture main material. The necessity of Teak is always increasing, both in our country and also abroad while its population and supplying is low because the cycle of conventional Teak tree age is long. But the demand and order of house wares from the abroad has always increased. This thing is prove that requirement of teak will always increase in export marketing especially European countries, USA and Asia.
Giantchess.com apply formal teak material that has buy from Perum Perhutani, which is the teaks are planted in the plantations for wooding up. Perum Perhutani always perform a cultivation of seeding in every year to replace the big Teak trees which have been a period to be cut.
In this page we present some pictures such as: Teak cultivation, Teak forest, the scratch at the old Teak tree, and the others.
Click here to see teak plantation in Java island, Indonesia
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