the Botanical name - Tectona grandis L. Fil
German, English and Italian names - Teak.
The tree from family verbenovyh (Verbenaceae), reaches heights of 50 metres with thickness of a trunk of 50 and more centimetres. Grows in India, Indonesia, Burma and surrounding region, and also in East Africa.
Wood zolotisto-brown with dark impregnations or sites, a structure well expressed, a direction of fibres equal or slightly wavy. Tic wood possesses strong enough, pleasant smell.
Tic wood well gives in to all kinds of machining. Has the high maintenance of oily substances, therefore practically does not decay and can remain under favorable conditions of hundred years. It is very steady against loadings and external influences and consequently it is long since applied in shipbuilding. It is used for manufacturing of furniture, window frames, doors, for incrustations and in parquet floors. For reception of good wood from a tree a ring the bark and zabolon' acts in film at the basis of a trunk. The tree in some days dies off, but is left on a root as early as two years and only then cut down. Tikovaya wood contains the special oil used in India instead of the linen. Oil it partly also gives to tic wood its valuable qualities as protects iron from a rust. Before a covering poliuretanovymi varnishes drawing of the first coats excluding «podjig» wood is necessary.
Volume weight in an air-dry condition: 620 - 750 kg/cubic metres