Hemlock

• Sometimes irregular grain, moderately coarse texture
• Yellowish-grey to brownish-grey heartwood
• Yellowish-white sapwood
• Durability low
• Suitable for various interior joinery, supporting structures, furniture, plywood and veneer
• Easy to work
• Sometimes marketed together as Hem-Fir.

Western Hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg.) belongs to the Pinaceae family and comes from the west of the United States and Canada. 

The heartwood is not very durable (natural durability class IV). The sapwood is not durable (natural durability class V).

Western Hemlock dries easily and is easy to work. It has no resin pockets.

Finishing Western Hemlock poses no problems. For supporting interior structures, preservation in accordance with procedure A2.1 is needed.

• Supporting interior structures
• Various interior joinery
• Furniture
• Plywood
• Veneer
• Saunas

* at a wood moisture content of 15 per cent / ** relative atmospheric humidity