Timber iQ August- September 2018 // Issue: 39 | Page 20

COVER STORY
Big showrooms create a welcoming environment for timber lovers.
CONTRACTORS AND MANUFACTURERS
• Showrooms are available to bring clients to.
• More stock availability results in less waste and
fewer delays.
• Additional opportunities to save costs through using
lower grades, shorts, narrows and / or shop-soiled stock.
• Extensive racking system for easy access to smaller
volumes of timber allowing customers to come in,
select and take the timber away immediately.
• Alternatively, daily deliveries to sites in
surrounding areas.
• Preparatory machining, including manufacturing of
tongue-and-groove flooring, shiplap cladding and other
moulded items.
• Attractive trade discounts and extended payment
terms, when appropriate.
• Co-marketing opportunities.
HOBBYISTS AND INDIVIDUALS
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• Incredible variety and heart-pumping timber
excitement – literally a woodworker’s paradise!
• The opportunity to select and pull stock directly from
the racks.
• A section dedicated to heavily discounted clearance
bundles, with ever-changing contents, for the
bargain hunter.
• An off-cuts operation for smaller pieces.
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A PRODUCT RANGE LIKE NO OTHER
Rare Woods’ incredible, arguably unmatched, product
range spans the full variety of timbers in use in
South Africa today:
• Construction and utility timbers like pine, meranti
and saligna;
• Imported American staples like oak, ash, walnut,
poplar, maple, cherry, hickory, Oregon pine and beech;
• Popular European species like French oak, steamed
and white beech, spruce and Siberian larch;
• A full range of joinery timbers – meranti of course, but
also iroko, African mahogany, melunak, sapele,
afrormosia and even genuine Burmese teak;
• Wide variety of cedar, including western red, Alaskan,
Japanese, Himalayan, aromatic, Spanish and Malawian;
• Outdoor structural and decking timbers like balau,
garapa, massaranduba, ipe, keruing and recently
added thermo-treated oak and poplar;
• Popular African species like kiaat, Zambezi teak,
African rosewood, blackwood, yellowwood and
obeche; and
• Incredible exotics like zebrano, wenge, cocobolo,
bocote, ziricote, kingwood, tulipwood and more.