Rubber Wood Furniture, Made in Thailand Since 2000

Rubber wood is the timber of the para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, grown across southern Thailand for latex rather than for lumber. After roughly twenty-five years the tree stops producing and has to be felled and replanted, which means the timber is a by-product of an existing agricultural cycle rather than a reason to clear forest. For a long time it was simply burnt.

As furniture material it is a pale, dense hardwood with a fine, even grain. It takes stain and paint uniformly, holds a screw well, and once kiln-dried it stays stable in a heated or air-conditioned room. That combination is why the same timber works for a dining table, a bed frame and a child’s wardrobe.

It depends on the item, the finish and how the order is packed, so we confirm it per enquiry. Email nai@planet-furniture.com with the designs you are considering and we will reply with the minimum for each. The factory ships fifteen or more containers a month, so a design that performs can scale without changing supplier.

Both, in the same factory. For OEM you send drawings, a sample or a specification and we build exactly to it, under your brand. We will tell you honestly if a detail will not hold up in solid timber, and suggest the change rather than build a piece that comes back.

For ODM you start from our existing catalogue and we adapt it — dimensions for your market’s rooms, finish to match your range, hardware, and packaging. Private-label packing and labelling are handled here too, so goods arrive retail-ready rather than needing rework at your end.

Finishes vary by collection, and because finishing is done in house we can tell you exactly what goes onto each batch. If your market has a specific safety or emissions standard, email nai@planet-furniture.com and we will confirm which finishes meet it for the items you are considering.

Our regular markets are Australia, Europe, the United States and South Africa, and we have been shipping to them for twenty-five years. Containers are loaded at our own factory in Chonburi and go out through Laem Chabang, Thailand’s main deep-sea port, about an hour and a half from Bangkok.

Because loading happens on site rather than at a third-party depot, what is written on the packing list is what was actually put in the container.

Every order runs through a written quality procedure with checks at each stage, rather than one inspection at the end. Components are machined to tolerance before assembly, so frames square up the first time. Every surface is checked by hand before it reaches the finishing line, because a flaw caught there costs minutes and a flaw caught in a container costs a shipment.

Delivery performance is tracked as on-time in full against the date we quoted — currently 95%, and we would rather publish the real figure than a rounder one.

Acacia is our second timber, used where a warmer tone and a more pronounced grain suit the design — it reads richer than rubberwood and takes a darker finish well. Both species come from FSC-certified suppliers and both are milled, kiln-dried and stocked in the same factory.

That matters practically: a collection can mix the two without a second supply chain, second lead time or second set of certificates for your customs broker.

Yes, and we would encourage it. The factory is in Nong Yai, Chonburi, roughly an hour and a half from Bangkok, and everything happens there — the mill, machining, assembly, the finishing booth and container loading. There is no second site you would not be shown.

Buyers who cannot travel are welcome to ask for photographs or video of their own order at any stage of production, and we would rather send them than be asked why we did not.

There are more than eighteen hundred pieces in the live catalogue right now, grouped into six ranges — living room, dining room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and accessories — plus a hand-finished handicraft range.

On top of that sit more than twenty named collections such as Colonial, Coventry, Oslo, Manhattan, Zen, Stockholm and Liverpool. Each collection holds a consistent language of proportion, edge detail and finish, so you can furnish a whole room from one collection and have it look designed rather than assembled.