ABACHI - DESCRIPTION:
Abachi wood has several unique properties that make it ideal for saunas. It is valued for its low weight, which makes it easy to handle. The wood has a light, almost white color and shows little color variation. Fresh heartwood is whitish to creamy yellow and, when exposed to light, turns into a golden-yellow shade. There is no pronounced difference between sapwood and heartwood. The color and quality of abachi may vary depending on its origin. On the cross section, large individual vessels are visible along with diffuse parenchyma tissue, while the tangential section shows a layered structure. The wood grain is straight to interlocked. Interlocked grain creates faint to fairly pronounced striping on the radial surface. The main characteristic of abachi is its low thermal conductivity, and it does not heat up significantly through the depth of the wood. Its main advantage lies not only in the fact that abachi benches do not heat up to the ambient
temperature (for example, in a hot sauna), but above all in the fact that they very quickly adapt to the body temperature of the person sitting on them. Abachi has excellent thermal insulation properties (when the sauna temperature is 90–110 °C, the surface temperature of an abachi bench does not exceed 40 °C). The surface remains pleasant even at high sauna temperatures and does not burn the skin. We offer abachi as softline-profile cladding boards with an extended tongue, which visually minimizes the natural dimensional changes of wood caused by humidity fluctuations.
Profile:
Softline (STP); ideal for sauna wall cladding
Region of growth:
Tropical West Africa. Main producing countries: Cameroon, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Ghana.
Packaging:
1 bundle = 7 pcs
All tongue-and-groove profiles are listed and charged per square meter, including the tongue.