¿Qué es?
A very hard, pale, fine-grained hardwood that takes heavy wear without denting - the standard for sports floors and chopping blocks.
¿Por qué importa?
Hard maple is priced on whiteness as much as on grade: the pale sapwood is the valuable part, which inverts the usual hardwood rule that heartwood is what you want. That makes handling and drying speed commercially critical, because stain develops fast.
Where it grows
The northeastern United States and eastern Canada.What it is used for
Basketball and bowling floors, butcher blocks, cabinets, furniture, musical instruments, turnery.What to watch
Hard to work and hard on tooling, and prone to burning under blunt cutters. Figured forms - bird's eye, curly - are selected out and sold at many times the price of plain stock.Precio
Oak and maple hardwood flooring, US producer price index
Promedio anualIndex Jun 1984=100
Base: US producer price index for oak and maple hardwood flooring - a finished product made from the wood rather than the lumber itself.. Promedios anuales publicados en FRED (US Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price indexes) · fuente ↗. Estos son promedios anuales de referencia, no una cotización de mercado en tiempo real.
Para qué se usa
Todos los mercados finales →| Mercado final | Lo que hace allí | Importancia |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture & Joinery | Sports floors, worktops and cabinets | Definición de |