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Agar wood or eagle wood, which one is correct?

admin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:55:14 +0000

Many people have confused about how to call this one timber. Some people call it as for wood and some other people mention this as an eagle wood timber. Thus, between the two names, which one is correct to use? Actually, these two terms can be used wood, both for wood and eagle wood; can be used to refer to a type of timber in the Indonesian language known as aloes wood. Wood is now much talked by many Indonesian people because of its high economic value. Some successful business people of this wood were even able sell their wood products abroad and managed to obtain a good market share abroad.

Before you can start this business, you should know what it wood of aloes first is. Aloes wood is a type of wood that can produce a resin of high value. When you buy wood aloes, which you buy is not actually the wood, but the resin produced by the wood of aloes. The resin would then be reprocessed into several products such as perfume and some household products industry. There are several types of aloes wood which can be distinguished according to their economic value. Eaglewood low economic value of wood called gaharu buaya. It is considered as low economic value because of the resin produced is not so good. Meanwhile, gaharu wood that had a good resin called aloes banyan.

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Gaharu Grafting To Preserve Gaharu Wood

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:14:37 +0000

Gaharu is one type of wood that has some distinctive characteristic to be compared to the other, that is black wood that has special resin that is produced by some certain species of Aquilaria. Gaharu is used in the production of fragrance or perfumes because it’s unique fragrant characteristic. Gaharu has become one important commodity for some countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, and some other countries in the South East Asia. Some major importing countries for Gaharu are India, Arab, and Eastern Africa.
With the increasing need of gaharu as well as increasing price of this commodity, gaharu becomes one of the types of wood that is hunted by many industries. Yet, with the reckless and irresponsible logging, many trees that do not produce gaharu become threatened. Many people randomly cut the wood, that makes so many types of wood cut off without reason. On the other side, the trees that produce gaharu itself become more and more rare. This is one reason that many governments considered gaharu as the endangered species. So many preservation areas are built to protect gaharu from extinction.
In this preservation area, gaharu is not only protected but also reproduced well. Gaharu grafting is one way that is done to push the faster reproduction of gaharu. With gaharu grafting, the extinction that threatens this type of wood will be able to be avoided by the increasing number of the wood. Besides protection, it is hoped that the number of gaharu wood will be able to fulfill the need of fragrance production, so that it can help to increase the income of the nations.

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The Reasons of Aquilaria Malancensis Exports

admin — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:50:43 +0000

Aquilaria Malacensis is the biology term for one of the sorts of Eaglewood. It has the best quality compared with other kinds of eaglewoods. This kind of wood has been very popular recently. Long time ago, it was just able to be found in the deep part of jungle such as tropical rain forest. Therefore, it normally grows in tropical countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and the like. However, due to its high values in business, the governments of the countries who owns Aquilaria Malacensis, starts empowering it by growing it in the backyards of their residents. By growing the tree widely, the supply of eaglewood is always available.
You may be wondering why Aquilaria Malancensis becomes very popular. This is because this kind of wood has unique functions in which it attracts people to use it. Long time ago, indigenous tribes in Borneo, Sumatra, and other islands of tropical countries, used Aquilaria Malacensis as amulet or the media of hypnotism. However, the functions have expanded now. First of all, it can be used as traditional medicine. There are a lot of diseases that can be healed by Aquilaria Malancensis, such as asthma, impotent, and the like. Besides, the wood can also be proceeded to be perfumes. It has become a very popular export commodity for Paris and Middle East countries, because they produce perfumes and use this wood as one of the ingredients. With those kinds of functions, Aquilaria Malacensis becomes very important in business world. People keep looking for it for export commodity.

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Agarwood for the best fragrance

admin — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:19:06 +0000

Having very nice fragrant for our house will create another feeling for our guest enjoying living in our house. It is going to be very different whenever our house uses aromatic. People who are coming to our house will get the best comfortable feeling. That’s why people always put some fragrance inside of the house in order to create very great comfort for everyone who is living inside. To make it realize, there is the best fragrance that can be employed. It is agarwood that is very famous since long time ago for it greatness in producing the best aromatic for our house.
Agarwood is very famous for it uses to make our feeling better after inhale the smell. Thus, people who are experiencing this will feel very comfortable. Today, agarwood is used for many kinds of fragrance that can be best selection for creating great aroma for our house. Agarwood can be put as well in our bath room in order to make the smell very good and the one who are using the bath room feel very comfortable. In the living room, agarwood can be the best ways for relaxation that can make every guest feel really at home.

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Brief Information about Gaharu

admin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:21:14 +0000

Along with human’s history of their culture and tradition, the gaharu has been being a part of it through for year to year. From the past until now, people has been using this wood for their various purposes in everywhere and every time. Therefore, even if gaharu is only able to found at Southern of Asia, the usage of this wood has been being a legend for many people in entire of the world.
In the past, people have only used this wood for their most traditional culture and medicine such as for a fragrance in a tradition ceremony or a medicine of any strange disease. Nowadays, by the development of technology and medical research, it has been founded that gaharu is able to curing some most dangerous diseases like cancer or some tumors. Furthermore, the gaharu is also able for cosmetics and aromatherapy to make people be fresh back after working hard all day.
Thus, it will be normally for us if we have seen gaharu sold in the market with high rate of its price. Due people need of this wood, the request of this wood has been increasing rapidly for year to year. Therefore, this wood has been being a worth thing and it will be more worth for the future because many scientists have predicted there still are many any other of this wood’s advantages that have not revealed yet.

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The Golden Tree

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:33:05 +0000

Everybody who has studied about medication surely will know about gaharu or more known as the eagle wood. This is a kind of wood that has many efficacies as medicine for many diseases. For long time ago, the eagle wood has actually been used for not only as medicine, but it was also for any other purposes like as camphor, aroma therapy, cosmetics, preservative, and accessories.
Due the many of the eagle wood’s advantages, there will not surprising us if this wood is worth enough and its price have rising for year to year, even it was more worth than a gold in Arab Saudi. For information, this wood can reaches more than $500 of its worth for every kilogram. This was causing the eagle wood has been being one of the scarcest goods in the world today. Many people have tried to cutting the eagle wood tree in everyday.
At this time, the eagle wood has been hard to find by us. Therefore, people have been trying to make a kind of synthetic of this wood as alternative. This will make the cutting trees of this wood can be reduced and so we can safe our environment from any illegal cutting trees.

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A Multi Purpose Wood

admin — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:55:29 +0000

The gaharu or it was more known as eagle wood has been sold in many of its variety since long time ago. The variety of the eagle wood which has been sold in the market today is can be chunks, chips, and powder. Usually, people have used the eagle wood for many purposes include for perfume, chopstick, medicines, or any other things. This has making the worth of this wood is higher and higher in every year.
Actually, the gaharu or the eagle wood is produced from any infected trees which are growth at the tropic area. The most famous of the gaharu or eagle wood producer areas are India, China, Malaysia, and Indonesia. These countries have been producing many gaharu or eagle woods in every year. Surely, due its advantages, the countries which have been producing this wood will get very much income from its sales.
Furthermore, by the development of technology and medical research now, many scientists have founded that the eagle wood has many more advantages for us. They have been providing that gaharu or eagle wood is able to vanquishing some most dangerous diseases like as cancer, kidney, lungs tumor, and colon tumor. Considering of its advantages, this will not surprising us if this wood is called with a multi purpose wood.

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Gaharu’s Oil

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:20:51 +0000

Gaharu’s oil is any oil that produced from gaharu trees (Aquilaris Malascences). This oil is usually used for making perfume or any other fragrances. We have been know that gaharu is only able to grow in any tropical area, but, unfortunately, people at these area are mostly not knowing yet about how worth the gaharu’s oil is. This surely is a bad condition for them because considering of the gaharu’s advantages for us people should have to cultivate this plant more and many more.
The ignorance of people at the Southern Asia of the gaharu advantages is maybe caused by the less of information about it at there. Whereas, when they have known about how to cultivate the gaharu tree is, they will able to get many benefits from there. As for information, gaharu worth is able to reach more than $500 for each kilogram. Surely, this is a kind of valuable omzet for any people who have known that it will make them be a rich man in a short time.
Nowadays, the information about how to cultivating gaharu is more encouraged. Both Europeans and Americans have giving information about it much in every information media. They have hoped that by this way, the production of gaharu’s oil can be increased so the usage and the worth of this wood can be more available for every people in the world.

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Why We Must Save the Eagle Wood Existence?

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 09:33:05 +0000

Along with the people knowledge, the gaharu or it also known as the eagle wood has been being a part of it and has been used for many purposes for long time ago. Chinese, Asians, Europeans, and still many other people from various countries in the world have known that the eagle wood is a wood which has many advantages for our healthy. As example, in the past, people have used to use this wood as analgesic, as mosquito repellent, and as a medicine of many diseases.
Due its advantages, it will not surprising if this wood has expensive enough of its worth and many people have tried to felling and cut the eagle wood trees for year to year. They know that by sell the eagle wood, they will be able to get a lot of money. This wood is easy enough for sold because there were many people who have scrambled to buy this wood. Thus, this was making the eagle wood trees populations get lower and lower on its quantity.
Surely, the lower of the eagle wood populations in every year has to be our concerns. It means, when the eagle wood populations have been vanished on the entire of the world, we will get loss of a medicine source, and this case possibly to make the higher of disease syndrome at the future.

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Eaglewood:Indonesia National Standard (SNI 01-5009.1-1999)

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:53:32 +0000

Indonesia National Standard
SNI 01-5009.1-1999
EAGLEWOOD
1. Scope
These standards include definitions, symbols and abbreviations, terms, specifications, classifications, how to harvest, quality requirements, sampling, test methods, passing test requirements, labeling requirements, the testing guidelines of eaglewood produced in Indonesia.
2. Definition
Eaglewood is a kind of timber with various unique shapes and colors, and contains levels of mastic, derived from trees or parts of Eaglewood-producing trees that grow naturally and have died, as a result of the infection process that occurs either naturally or artificially in the tree, and generally it occurs in Aguilaria tree sp. (Local name: Karas, Alim, Garu and others).
3. Symbol and Abbreviations

3.1.  U   = Main quality              3.12. t    = Thickness

3.2.  I   = First quality             3.13. TGA  = Medium A

3.3.  II  = Second quality            3.14. TAB  = Medium AB

3.4.  III = Third quality             3.15. TGC  = Medium C

3.5.  IV  = Fourth quality            3.16. TK 1 = Medium Kedangan

3.6.  V   = Fifth quality             3.17. SB 1 = Sabah 1

3.7.  VI  = Sixth quality             3.18. M 1  = Kemedangan 1

3.8.  VII = Seventh quality           3.19. M 2  = Kemedangan 2

3.9.  -   = Not required              3.20. M 3  = Kemedangan 3

3.10. p   = Length                    3.21. kg   = kilogram

3.11. l   = Width                     3.22. gr   = gram

4. Glossary

4.1. Eaglewood ash is an Eaglewood powder produced from the milling process or the destruction of rubbing and cleaning remains of the Eaglewood.

4.2. Eaglewood Resin is a kind of solid and soft resin, which comes from trees or parts of Eaglewood-producing trees, with a strong scent, and is characterized by its brownish black.
4.3. Eaglewood cambium is wood from trees or parts of Eaglewood-producing trees, that contains mastic with a rather strong scent, which is characterized by its black or in turn blackish brown.
4.4. Kemedangan is wood from trees or parts of eaglewood-producing trees, which contain mastic with the weak scent, which is characterized by its grayish white to brown, coarse grained, and its soft wood.
5. Specifications
Eaglewood is grouped into 3 (three) sorts, they are Eaglewood Cambium , Kemedangan, and Eaglewood Ash

6. Classification
6.1. Eaglewood Cambium is divided into quality mark, they are:

The main quality, with a mark of quality U, equal to super quality
The first quality, with a mark of quality I, equal to AB quality
Second quality, with a mark of quality II, equal to super Sabah

6.2. Kemedangan is grouped into 7 (seven) quality classes, they are;

First Quality, with a mark of quality I, equal to TGA or TK I.

Second quality, with a mark of quality II, equal to the quality of SB I.
Third quality, with a mark of quality III, equal to the quality of TAB.
Fourth quality, with a mark of quality IV, equl to the quality of TGC.
Fifh quality, with a mark of quality V, equal to the quality of M 1.
Sixth quality, with a mark of quality VI, equal to the quality of M 2.
Seventh quality, with a mark of quality VII, equal to the quality of M 3.

6.3. Eaglewood Ash is grouped into 3 (three) quality classes, they are:

Main quality, with a mark of quality U.
First quality, with a mark of quality I.
Second quality, with a mark of quality II.

7. How to Harvest

7.1. Eaglewood Cambium and kemedangan are obtained by felling trees that produce the eaglewood that has died, as a result of the mastic accumulation caused by infection in the tree.

7.2. Trees that have been harvested and cleaned and cut into pieces or split apart, then the wood parts that contain an accumulation of mastic are selected, and later they are called as eaglewood.

7.3. Pieces of eaglewood are sorted according to the content mastic, color and shape.

7.4. In order that the color of the pieces of eaglewood can be more visible, the eaglewood pieces are cleaned by rubbing.

7.5. The eaglewood splinters of the remaining of cutting and cleansing or rubbing, are re-collected to be made as raw materials of the eaglewood making..

8. Quality requirements

8.1. General Requirements

Both Eaglewood Cambium and Kemedangan are not allowed to have flaws of being decayed and rottened.
8.2. Specific Requirements
Specific requirements of eaglewood quality can be seen in a row in Table 1, 2 and 3.

Table 1. Quality Requirements of lEaglewood Cambium

No.	Characteristics	Quality
No.	Characteristics	U	I	II
1	Shape	-	-	-
2	Size	4-15 cm2-3 cm ≥ 0,5 cm	4-15 cm2-3 cm ≥ 0,5 cm	15 cm- -
3	Color	Dark Black	Brownish black	Brownish black
4	Mastic Content	High	Enough	Medium
5	Fiber	Solid	Solid	Solid
6	Weight	Heavy	Rather heavy	Medium
7	Scent (burnt)	Strong	Strong	Rather Strong

Table 2. Quality Requirements of Kemedangan

No	Characteristics	Quality
No	Characteristics	I	II	III	IV	V	VI	VII
1	Color	Blackish Brown	Black Striped Brown	Slight white striped brown	Slight white striped brownish	Wide white striped brownish	Grayish white with slight black	Grayish white
2	Mastic Content	High	Enough	Medium	Medium	Medium	Less	Less
3	Fiber	Rather solid	Rather solid	Rather solid	Less Solid	Less Solid	Rarely	Rarely
4	Weight	Rather heavy	Rather heavy	Rather heavy	Rather heavy	Light	Light	Light
5	Scent (Burnt)	Rather Strong	Rather Strong	Rather Strong	Rather Strong	Less Strong	Less Strong	Less Strong

Table 3. Quality Requirements of Eaglewood Ash

No	Characteristics	Quality
No	Characteristics	U	I	II
1	Color	Black	Blackish Brown	Brownish/Yellowish White
2	Mastic Content	High	Medium	Less
3	Scent (Burnt)	Strong	Medium	Less

9. Sampling
Sampling for eaglewood or eaglewood ash for the purpose of inspection is conducted randomly, with the number of test samples as listed in Table 4.
Table 4. Eagle Number of Test Sample

Population Number

Number of Test Sample

1.2.

< 100 kg100 – 1000 kg

> 1000 kg

15 gr100 gr

200 gr

10. Test Methods

10.1. Principle: Tests are conducted visually with the priority color impression and the scent impression (smell) when it is burnt.

10.2. The equipment used includes tape measure, knives, fire, magnifying glass (loupe) of the magnifying of ≥ 10 (ten) times, and scales.
10.3. Testing requirements
10.3.1. Eaglewood to be tested should be grouped according to the same sorts. Especially for eaglewood ashes are grouped according to the same color.
10.3.2. The testing is carried out in a bright place (with adequate lighting), so that they can observe all the abnormalities found in eaglewood or eaglewood ash.
10.4. Testing Implementation
10.4.1. Determination of wood species
Determination of eaglewood species can be carried out by examining the general characteristics of eaglewood.
10.4.2. Determination of the size
Determination of the length, width and thickness of eaglewood is only valid for the type of cambium eaglewood.
10.4.3. Weight determination
Weight determination is done by weighing, using the unit of kilograms (kg).
10.4.4. Determination of the quality

Determination of eaglewood quality is by the assessment of the size, color, shape, state of fiber, the weight of wood, and the scent of tested eagle wood. While for the eaglewood ashes, it is done by assessing the color and scent.
a. Assessment of the size of eaglewood is by measuring the length, width and thickness, in accordance with quality requirements in Table 2.

b. Assessment of the color wood and eaglewood ash is by assessing the maturity of color, older color of the wood, indicating that resin content is higher.

c. Assessment of the content of the mastic and the scent is by cutting a small portion of the eaglewood or by taking a pinch of eaglewood ashes, then burnings it. The contents of high mastic can be seen from the result of combustion, that is the eaglewood or its ash are melting and pulling out a strong and fragrant scent.

d. Assessment of eaglewood fiber is by assessing the tightness and the density of wood fiber. Tight, dense, smooth and soft wood fibers have higher quality than rare or rude fibers.

10.4.5. Determination of the finishing quality

The determination of the finishing quality is based on the lowest quality according to one of quality requirements based on the characteristics of eaglewood.

11. Passing Test Requirements

eaglewood or eaglewood ash that has been tested or inspected, is declared to have passed the test if it meets the quality requirements set.
12. Labeling requirements
On the packaging of the eaglewood or eaglewood ash that has completed testing should printed:
- Number of packaging
- Weight of packaging
- Sorting
- Quality
- Number SNI
- Corporate Identification Signs (TPP)

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