Elemental Hardwoods has added solid Kempas, a hard and durable orange-brown hardwood that carmelizes in color as it ages, to its premium line of exotic hardwood flooring products. Sometimes called Asian Cherry, Kempas (Koompassia malaccensis botanical name) is ideal for transforming ordinary flooring into long-lasting, beautiful and natural works of art.
Elemental Hardwoods has spent the past 25 years focused on finding responsible and sustainable sources for some of the most gorgeous hardwood flooring species on the planet. Most of its woods come from the greater Amazon River Basin. When a good Indonesian FSC forest resource for Kempas appeared, the company jumped on the chance to add it to its solid exotics line, which we are now stocking in Oregon and New Jersey.
ELEMENTAL’s clean select-and-better grade Kempas is 100 percent solid heartwood, prefinished with a 15-20 percent low gloss finish and sourced under stringent Forest Management standards. Its 1710 Janka hardness rating is much harder than domestic oak, maple and walnut, while the medium color range of orange-reds to carmel-beiges age nicely to magnificently complement today’s style trends at a competitive price that most buyers can afford.
ELEMENTAL Kempas flooring is currently available in the USA in solid 3/4 by 3 1/2 by 1 1/2 inches, prefinished low gloss with 17.44 square feet per box.