Originally Posted by seignet:
They must be projecting for a future market. The present world economies are shrinking. Europe and North American middle classes are depressed. Solid wood furniture are very pricy as can be observed in North America. I wonder if IKEA is their target. Purpleheart and Jatoba are cultivated in Costa Rica on large scale farms-sustainable. Those woods have large grains and not good for high priced furnitures. I am still puzzled by the Chinese interests in acquiring all that lumber.
Real wood products do not exist anymore except in upscale bouquet establishment where they have doormen screening clients.