这是什么？
A very hard, pale, fine-grained hardwood that takes heavy wear without denting - the standard for sports floors and chopping blocks.
为何重要？
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.价格
Oak and maple hardwood flooring, US producer price index
年度平均值Index Jun 1984=100
基准: US producer price index for oak and maple hardwood flooring - a finished product made from the wood rather than the lumber itself.. 年度平均值，来源： FRED (US Bureau of Labor Statistics producer price indexes) · 来源 ↗. 以下为参考年度均价，非实时市场报价。
其用途
所有终端市场 →| 终端市场 | 其在彼处的用途 | 重要性 |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture & Joinery | Sports floors, worktops and cabinets | 定义 |