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The following is based upon a Chapter by A.C. Sekhar in
Sethuraj and a paper which appeared in Rubber Developments.
More information about the production of rubberwood is available.
Introduction and general aspects
Until recently the most important product from the rubber
tree was its latex and efforts to improve the tree concentrated
upon increasing the latex yield. Typically following an
exploitation period of about thirty years the trees are
felled for replanting with higher yielding clones. Until
recently, most of the timber was used as fuel. With the
depletion of tropical forests, leading to a shortage of
timber for many industrial and engineering uses, attention
has turned towards rubberwood as an alternative source of
timber.
Rubber trees grow to a height of 25 m and generally have
straight trunks. At the time of felling, the girth varies
between 100 to 110 cm at a height of 125 cm from the ground
and gives 0.62 m3 of stump wood and 0.4 m3 of branch wood:
normally 180 to 185 trees will be available per hectare.
Industrial articles made from rubberwood include: benches;
bread boards; building components; blackboards; block boards;
cabinets; carving boards; chairs; chests; chopping boards;
cement boards; charcoal; dining sets; doors; drawer faces;
fibreboards; folding chairs; folding tables; furniture and
furniture components; garden equipment; gift boxes; hardboards;
ice buckets; jewellery boxes; kitchen cabinets; knife blocks;
magazine racks; moulded hardboards; mouldings; match splints;
match boxes; packing cases; pallets; panelling; paper; particle
boards; picture frames; pepper & salt sets; parquet
flooring; plant stands; plywood; pulp; restaurant furniture;
railings; rocking chairs; rayon; salad bowls; screen partitions;
serving trays; shelves; spice racks; steak plates; stools;
suit cases; tables; tea trolleys; television cabinets; toilet
seats; toys including dolls houses; vegetable boxes; wine
racks; etc
Use Of Rubberwood Contant
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