Rubberwood Furniture
Rubberwood is best described as a hard pine-like wood. It is extremely hard-wearing and has an warm yellowish-brown colour with an attractive grain pattern.
The timber comes from the rubber tree, which also produces latex, used in the production of natural rubber products.
The material is sourced from Malaysia, from areas with strict re-planting schemes. Unlike other timber that is felled for the sole purpose of producing furniture, rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis) is used only after its latex producing cycle is finished and the tree dies.
After around thirty years of latex extraction, the economic life of the rubber tree comes to an end due to the latex yield becoming depleted. The rubber trees are then felled for timber and new trees are planted. This makes rubberwood a particularly ecologically friendly material.
Prior to the value of the old timber being recognised, the trees were felled and burned after their latex yield fell to uneconomic levels.
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