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Bengkirai is very common throughout Malaysia and Indonesia. being a large hardwood it has a growing range of 30 to 60 metres.
Bengkirai is dense but contains little silica and is therefore relatively easy to work for a beautiful surface finish. The timber has a heartwood yellow brown, reddish brown and sometimes purplish brown.
It has a fine to medium texture, even with the grain wavy and interlocked. It has been widely used in South East Asia as a heavy construction timber as well as window joinery and boat building.
In Australia the timber has been regularly used for domestic decking, flooring and stair manufacture.
Although Bengkirai is fairly durable in a colder climates we recommend that Bengkirai only be used in warmer destination climates. This is because sometimes the timber can bend and crack with exposure to severe frosts and temperature changes.
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