The main objective of this work was to analyze the perception of the manufacturers of the furniture center of Ubá-MG, Brazil on the use of eucalyptus wood for furniture production. The increasing environmental restraint on the use of wood from native forests has stimulated the use of reforestation plantings specially of eucalyptus. A questionnaire was made and applied to the undertakers of the furniture center of Ubá, who use solid wood for furniture production, including seventeen of the dining-room section, twenty-one of the bedroom section and six of the made-to-order furniture section. The experience of using eucalyptus wood was observed in 43.2% of the enterprises. The main factors that influenced its use were: the fact that the lumber comes from planted forest and have uniform characteristics, and the scarcity of wood from native forest. 88% of the enterprises that have never used eucalyptus wood have already learned about its potentialities but do not use it because of their little knowledge about it, the lack of suppliers, lack of consumer demand and high price. It was concluded that most enterprises have interest in the use of eucalyptus wood in the future, once they obtain more information and reasonable price.
Furniture production; eucalyptus wood; furniture center
