Mango Wood: One of Our Sustainable Materials

Deforestation is something that we’re incredibly concerned about. While this may seem odd coming from a furniture company, we here at Bokel strive to ensure responsible forestry to let trees flourish.

For our solid mango furniture, we use the wood from trees that have finished their commercial life producing mangoes. This means that we are effectively using waste material that would otherwise have to be burnt to make room for new saplings.

Mango wood is highly sustainable due to its cultivation as a fruit tree. The trees grow to maturity relatively quickly for a hardwood, reaching maturity after about 15 years. At this point they begin to produce less fruit, or stop altogether.

Mango farmers begin to plant new trees every 7 to 15 years before the older trees become barren. This creates a sustainable cycle of plantation and harvest, with only the less fruitful trees being chopped down for wood.

Using mango wood also means that there is less pressure to use more endangered trees such as teak.

Mango is a hardwood. The stunning natural grain patterns and markings can be enhanced beautifully with a variety of stains and waxes to create completely unique pieces that will last the test of time.

Over 90% of our furniture is made with mango wood. All of our mango wood products have a tag on their product page on our website if they are made with mango wood. In fact, you probably got to this page by clicking on one of these tags:
Sustainable Materials – Made with Mango Wood: Learn More

So what about the other products we sell that are not made from mango wood? Well, we work closely with our supply chain partners to check that we are sourcing sustainably and we are always working to increase our mango wood furniture range.