Chinese Name: Disk Bean
Foreign Name: Chlorophora spp
Origin: Africa
Foreign Name: OKAN
Commonly known as: disc beans
The disc bean is a kind of superior solid wood flooring material. Its heartwood is golden brown to reddish brown. It is mainly distributed in Africa, especially in Ghana. It is mainly used to make floors.
Disk Bean Floor
Disk bean belongs to Mimosa family. The wood has luster, unpleasant odor when raw wood, no special odor and taste in peacetime, interlaced texture, fine and uniform structure, and is a top-grade solid wood floor material. Wood weight is very heavy (air-dry density 1.07g/cm3), shrinkage is very large, and strength is high (along-grain compressive strength 76.1Mpa, flexural strength 128.9 Mpa). The heartwood is golden brown to reddish brown with luster. Stable wood properties, wear resistance and termite resistance. It is mainly distributed in Africa and is abundant in Ghana and Congo, especially in Ghana. The climate change of the tropical rainforest in the Asanti Plateau is changeable. The average equatorial temperature is mostly above 40 C, and the precipitation difference is obvious. The complex climate environment not only makes the disc bean have extensive adaptability and stability, but also makes it accumulate the unique charm entrusted by the environment.
The climate change of the tropical rainforest in the Asanti Plateau is changeable. The average equatorial temperature is mostly above 40 C, and the precipitation difference is obvious. The complex climate environment makes "disc bean" not only have extensive adaptability and stability, but also make it accumulate the unique charm entrusted by the environment. Regional environment and climatic characteristics make the material itself have a unique aesthetic and texture, dark stripes, luster, and distinct from sapwood. In the structure, wood has good corrosion resistance, wear resistance and weatherability. The air-drying density is 0.61-0.99g/cubic centimeter. The wood is yellow-brown or dark-brown after drying. The material is hard, slightly oily, with good stability and good natural corrosion resistance.
Disk beans and heavy ant trees, like twin brothers in high-end floors, originate in Africa and come from Brazilian rainforests. Brazilians make semi-finished flooring of heavy ant wood and ship it to China by sea, whereas Africans only know how to sell logs to local Chinese businessmen. Although they are thousands of miles apart, they have the same advantages: high strength, dense texture, good polishing and strong nail holding power; especially in color sense, they have distinct texture, red, yellow, green and other hues, and have been widely used in solid wood floor manufacturing industry.
Characteristic of disc beans
1. The disc bean solid wood floor has good stability and is not easy to deform. If the users who use geothermal heating must use the solid wood floor, they can use the disc bean solid wood floor.
2. The disc beans solid wood floor is dark in color, and it is very high-grade to make dark floor, but it is not suitable for users who like light floor.
3. The disc beans solid wood floor has high hardness, good impact resistance, good wear resistance, and occasionally no trace of heavy objects.
4. Disk beans solid wood flooring pattern is large, so the color difference is large, not suitable for the pursuit of ** style users.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages: darker color, higher density, that is, heavier, with classical beauty, very popular with the Orientals; high stability, can be very good temperature difference resistance. At the same time, the density is high, that is, relatively strong, slightly smashed basically no small pits, fighting ability is very strong.
Disadvantage: Hard texture, sapwood and heartwood color difference is very big.
Many people like the heavier the floor, the better, but too heavy, too dense the floor feels worse when stepping on the foot. The disc beans are like stepping on a stone. Old people and children still do not want to choose this kind.