Ghana Hardwoods

Ghana Hardwoods
Trade
Name
Weight
General
kg/m3 (12- Desription or
15% m/c) specific joinery
Botanical
Name
Afam
Parinari excelsa
900
Albizia
Albizia zygia
550
Asanfina
Aningeria spp.
550
Avodire
Thurenthus
africanus
550
Berekankum Manilkara spp
1000
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
Common Uses
Industrial floors, boat
Hard, heavy and
construction, paneling,
strong for tough
flooring, heavy-duty
exterior use
structures.
Joinery, veneer,
plywood, selected
furniture, carpentry,
General purpose red flooring, boat
utility species
construction
Lower strength,
Sliced veneer, interior
decorative interior
joinery, panelling and
use
trip.
High quality interior
Attractive, pale, silky joinery, fittings,
wood for interior
mouldings, furniture,
decorative panelling decorative veneer and
and furniture
plywood
Multiple use joinery,
cabinet work, turnery,
flooring, furniture,
Heavy duty flooring,
Tough durable
boat construction,
exterior species
marine work.
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com
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Ghana Hardwoods
Black
Hyedua
Guibourtia ehie
850
High quality cabiniet
wood prized for
apparence
Consistant heartwood
and sapwood. Good
strength to weight
ration.
Ceiba
Ceiba pentandra
300
Celtis
Celtis mildbraedii
750
Dahoma
Piptadeniastrum
aftricanum
700
Danta
Nesogordonia
papaverifera
750
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
Decorative sliced veneer,
high quality cabinet
work, special joinery,
trim and fittings,
flooring, carvings,
turner, musical
instruments.
Core veneers for
plywood and blockboard,
mouldings, food
containters, boxes
Structural interior
joinery, trim, flooring,
Strong light coloured mouldings, veneer,
with straight grain
plywood, handles,
and fine texture.
furniture.
Exterior structural,
Tough timber used
marine work, sleepers,
mostly for exterior
outdoor furniture, trailer
applications
decking
Heavy attractive
High quality joinery,
redwood. Fine
cabinet work, bench
Grained, hard
tops, boat components,
wearing, strong.
decking, turnery.
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com
Ghana Hardwoods
Denya
Cylicodiscus
gabunensis
Ebony
Diospyros
crassiflora
Edinam
Emeri
Entandrophragma
angolense
Terminalia
ivorensis
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
950
Very high strength
and durability for
arduous applications
Flooring, heavy
construction, marine
construction, dock work,
bridges, pilings, ship and
boat building, heavy
duty flooring.
1030
Tremendous black
finish, hard.
Fine instruments, crafts,
furniture accents
550
Widely used
attractive redwood
species
550
Light coloured
versatile species of
good strength and
durability
Guarea
Guarea cedrata
600
Kaku/Ekki
Lophira alata
1050
Strong timber of
Mahogany-like
appearance
One of Ghana's
toughest and most
durable species
Outdoor and indoor high
quality joinery, cabinet
making, furniture, floors,
sliced/rotary veneer,
boat-building, turnery
Joinery, trim, mouldings,
light structures, window
frames, furniture,
domestic flooring,
veneer, plywood
Cabinet work, furniture,
flooring, boat
construction, joinery,
turnery, veneer.
Sea defence, heavy
structural work, floors,
piling.
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com
Ghana Hardwoods
Kane
Konkroma
Anogeissus
leiocarpus
1041
Morinda lucida
Benth.
500
Koto/Kyere
Pterygota
macrocarpa
650
Kusia
Nauclea
diderrichii
750
Mahogany
Khaya ivornsis
500
Strong, durable
timber, resistent to
decay.
Hard wood,
attractive,open
grained, well suited
for custom
applications
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
Framing, hand tools,
construction, floring,
turnery, musical
instruments, decking.
Gunstocks, instruments
and other fine
woodworking.
Sliced and rotary veneer,
Light coloured veneer plywood, select joinery,
and interior speciec
carpentry, boxes.
Marine construction,
dock work, decking,
Widely used, highly
exterior structures,
durable exterior
joinery, flooring, boat
quality timber
work.
High quality joinery,
cabinet work, furniture,
mouldings, doors,
frames, boat
Attractive, versatile
construction, veneer,
redwood of worldwide plywood, turnery,
reputation
carvings
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com
Ghana Hardwoods
Makore
Tieghmella
heckelii
640
Mansonia
Mansonia
altissima
650
Obaa/Ohaa
Sterculia Oblonga
750
Odum/Iroko Milicia exels
650
Ofram
550
Terminalia superb
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
Interior and exterior
Valued commercial
decorative and structural
redwood of good
joinery, furniture,
durability and
staircases, boats, high
strength
quality veneers
Distinctive walnut
High quality joinery and
covered wood for
cabinet work, flooring,
high quality joinery
turnery, veneers.
Pale yellowish wood Rotary veneer, sliced
of attractive
veneer, plywood,
appearance for
blockboard, joinery, trip,
interior use
panneling.
Exterior and interior
Well known, high
joinery, cabinet work,
grade, commercial
garden furniture,
species; good
flooring, work tops,
strength and
window frames, vats,
durability
boat work, decking
Rotary veneer, plywood,
interiorGeneral purpose light joinery/blockboard,
coloured interior and panelling, moulding and
veneer species
trim, selected furniture
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com
Ghana Hardwoods
Otie
Pycnanthus
angolensis
500
Papao/Apa
Afzelia africana
825
Potrodum
Erythrophleum
africanum
900
Tetekon
Gilbertiodendron
spp.
800
Walnut
Lovoa trichilioides
520
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
Interior utility joinery,
trim, mouldings,
General purpose
selected furniture, rotary
interior species
veneer, plywood, boxes
High quality exterior and
interior joinery, flooring,
Very stable, strong, decking, selected
durable, and
furniture, boat work,
attractive commercial doors,heavy
species
construction.
Heavy construction,
marine construction,
dock work, bridges,
Extremely strong and pilings, ship and boat
durable outdoor
building, heavy duty
species
flooring
Medium strength
Joinery, Carpentry, Boat
species of varied
Construction, Decking,
application.
Flooring.
High quality furniture,
cabinet work, joinery,
domestic flooring, boat
High quality,
construction, doors and
decorative wood of
frames, sliced/rotary
distinctive colour
veneer, plywood
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com
Ghana Hardwoods
Watapuo
Wawa
Sterculia spp.
Triplochiton
scleroxylon
Wawabima
Sterculia
rhinopetala
Yaya
Amphimas
pterocarpoides
375
Fairly soft; medium
density
375
Light coloured
versitile interior
species, widely used
750
Dark red, closegrained species of
good strength
775
Light coloured
interior species
FOUND IN VOLTA LAKE
Boxes, crates, carvings,
light construction,
furniture, cabinetry,
mouldings.
Rotary veneer, plywood,
blockboard, interior
joinery, panelling,
moulding, Sauna
selected furniture.
Joinery, fititngs, flooring,
selected exterior
structures rotarty
veneer, plywood.
Furniture, mouldings,
doors, trip, interior
joinery.
Triton Logging Inc. 6675 Mirah Road, Saanichton, BC, Canada V8M 1Z4
Phone: 250-652-4033
| Fax: 250-483-1955 | www.tritonlogging.com