Hardwood Flooring

Sabra International, Inc. offers a wide variety of options for

Tiete Chestnut (Sucupira) Hardwood Flooring

  More Flooring Species
- Amendoim
- Angelim Pedra
- Australian Cypress Pine
- Blood Wood
- Brazilian Cherry
- Brazilian Maple
- Brazilian Walnut ( Ipe )
- Cumaru
- Lapacho
- Patagonian Rosewood
- Purple heart
- Santos Mahogany
- Sirari Rosewood
- Tatajuba
- Tiete Chestnut (Sucupira)
- Tigerwood

 

Tiete Chestnut (Sucupira)

Description:
Sucupira has a chocolate to reddish brown color with low luster and irregular grain. Radial shrinkage 5%, tangential shrinkage 7.8%. Can be finished fairly smoothly. Very durable.

Gluing
Glues well

Finishes
Finishes fairly smoothly

 

Available Formats

  • Available in 3/4" x 2,25",3,4,5"
  • Unfinished and prefinished.

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Janka Hardness

Hardness and Durability: Probably the most important strength property for wood used in flooring application it is side hardness, also known as Janka hardness. Side hardness represents the resistance of wood to wear, denting and marring. It is measured by load required to embed a 0.444-inch steel ball to one-half its diameter in the wood. Janka Hardness rating are generally based on an average of test on both tangential and radial ( plainsawn and quartersawn) sample.