According to the Greenfield Performance Index, our country is attracting 11 times the amount of new investment that could be expected given the size of its economy. Costa Rica is the country that attr...
Years of unchecked logging laid waste to two-thirds of Costa Rica’s tree canopy, leaving its tropical rainforests facing an uncertain future. But the trees have returned and the resurrected forests ...
Costa Rica’s forests are an incredible success story. Following decades of rampant tree clearing for agriculture and livestock production, Costa Rica implemented protective policies in the 1980s tha...
Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa Civil engineer, hydrologist, specialist in earth sciences and SM IEEE. Researcher and professor at the University of Alberta (Canada) (gasanche@ualberta.ca). ISSN 1409-214X. A...
The pictures shown of our wood slabs were taken prior to our drying . As a result of this process, the final color and shape of our slabs may vary slightly. Prior to shipping we check our slabs for ...
One of the questions we get asked more often is how do we calculate the board-foot measure. According to Wikipedia it is defined as the volume of a one-foot length of a board one foot wide and one inc...
Working and finishing a Parota Wood Slab; not such a difficult task. Cutting and machining in dry wood typically produces smooth, clean edges and joints although you may experience some chip-out with ...