Teakhaus is a brand of the publicly-listed Mexican forestry company Proteak — its FSC teak grown on Latin-American plantations and its boards made in Vietnam.

Teakhaus follows Hasegawa as the round’s plantation node — the only board here you can trace to a specific plantation, a brand of a publicly-listed Mexican forestry company whose teak is grown on certified Latin-American plantations and whose boards are made in Vietnam. Its answer to a round about the material and where it is made is a traceability one: a genuine plantation-to-board supply chain, grown in one place and made in another.

Its identity is plantation teak, grown to board. The forestry-company parent, the FSC teak and the Vietnam making are the story here. Grown in Latin America, made in Vietnam. Plantation teak, grown to board.

(Honest notes, so the parent, the sourcing and the making are framed accurately, with corrections. Teakhaus sells teak cutting and carving boards as its heroes — edge-grain and end-grain boards, including large carving boards with juice canals; we report its language as the brand’s own. On the parent: Teakhaus is the consumer cutting-board brand of Proteak, a publicly-listed Mexican forestry company that trades on the Mexican Stock Exchange, founded around 2000 and headquartered in Mexico City with a US office in Wimberley, Texas, and we drop an unverified Tulsa claim and treat a conflicting founding-by-brothers story as unverified. On where it is grown and made, corrected: the teak is grown on Proteak’s certified plantations in Latin America, on Mexico’s Pacific coast, but the boards are manufactured in Vietnam, not Thailand or Mexico, per the brand’s own FAQ, so we say grown in Latin America and made in Vietnam. On the material: teak is naturally water-resistant from its oil content, knife-friendly and low-maintenance. On claims, separated: the FSC certification is a real third-party certification, since Proteak’s plantations hold an FSC forest-management certificate, so we say FSC-certified; a leadership award is a brand self-statement, and the carbon-capture figures are company claims, both attributed; and we could not verify an NSF certification. Its designs and the Teakhaus name are IP we describe but do not reproduce; there is no official brand hex; these tones are an unofficial interpretation.)

Teakhaus lives in a teak gold. Click a swatch to copy the hex.

Teakhaus’ identity is plantation-grown, publicly-parented and Vietnam-made — a teak gold, an ink, a pale teak, a deep teak, and a paper. The palette leans teak gold and deep teak: a warm, tropical register that nods to golden teak and a plantation supply chain rather than a loud logo colour. It signals plantation teak, grown to board — plantation-grown, publicly-parented and Vietnam-made. The honest caveat: with no official brand hex, these values are a teak, unofficial interpretation, not first-party colours.

The lesson is a teak gold signals a plantation, traceable-material identity. Teakhaus’ world is the grown-to-board supply chain. For designers, it is a reminder that a warm teak and a pale teak can carry a plantation, traceable brand — a tropical tone held as an accent, not a product shot. Because a warm hue can fail as small text, keep type dark and let the colour live in the accents, palette and band. The takeaways: name the parent as the publicly-listed Mexican forestry company Proteak; correct the sourcing to grown in Latin America and made in Vietnam; state the FSC certification as real; attribute the award and carbon claims; and do not claim NSF.

The register is a plantation sans — plantation-grown, publicly-parented, Vietnam-made.

Teakhaus’ identity carries a plantation-grown, publicly-parented, Vietnam-made spirit — a traceable supply chain under a forestry parent. A plantation sans captures the mood: clean, warm and considered, the register of a supply-chain-led brand. Set in a teak-gold palette, the plantation sans feels natural and grounded — exactly the personality Teakhaus carries. It behaves like a grown, made thing rather than a loud logo, mirroring a grain-gradient and an end-grain-grid. (Teakhaus’ real products and the name are things we describe but do not reproduce, and the exact typeface is not ours to use.) Because it is not ours to use, the honest description is “a plantation-sans brand,” shown here in a stand-in. The type behaves like the brand: plantation-grown, publicly-parented and Vietnam-made.

Teakhaus stands for plantation teak, grown to board.

Teakhaus sits fifth in the round as its plantation node. A teak-gold palette, a plantation sans and a forestry parent make one thing — plantation teak, grown to board — the whole identity: plantation-grown, publicly-parented and Vietnam-made. The forestry-company parent is the pitch, the FSC teak is the material, and the Vietnam making is the honest detail. The point is a genuine plantation-to-board supply chain, grown in one place and made in another, in a round about the material and where it is made.

Put to work, the identity is the brand told straight, the sourcing corrected and the claims separated. A brand in this spirit would name the parent as the publicly-listed Proteak, correct the sourcing to grown in Latin America and made in Vietnam, state the FSC certification as real, and attribute the award and carbon claims. A reader in this spirit would keep the facts right: Teakhaus sells edge-grain and end-grain teak boards; it is the cutting-board brand of Proteak, a publicly-listed Mexican forestry company; its teak is grown on FSC-certified Latin-American plantations; its boards are made in Vietnam, not Thailand; and its carbon-capture figures are attributed company claims. Teakhaus sits after Hasegawa and before Epicurean. The honest editorial moves are to name the parent, to correct the sourcing, to state the FSC, and to attribute the claims.

For designers and brand-builders, Teakhaus carries the cutting-board node: tell a two-part supply chain honestly — and separate a real certification from a claim. The lessons: a brand can trace its material to a plantation, here Teakhaus and Proteak’s teak; a parent is named as the publicly-listed Mexican forestry company Proteak; a supply chain is corrected to two parts, teak grown on Proteak’s FSC-certified Latin-American plantations and boards manufactured in Vietnam rather than Thailand or Mexico; a material is credited as naturally water-resistant, knife-friendly teak; and the sustainability is separated, the FSC certification a real third-party forest-management certificate, while the leadership award is a brand self-statement and the carbon-capture figures are company claims, both attributed, and no NSF is claimed. It is also a reminder to stay precise: Teakhaus is the Proteak-owned, Vietnam-made, FSC-teak board brand — with the palette here an unofficial interpretation and the US-made impression avoided. The hook is that traceability: Teakhaus is the only board here you can trace back to a specific plantation, a brand of the publicly-listed Mexican forestry company Proteak, its teak grown on FSC-certified Latin-American plantations and the boards made in Vietnam. Read that way, Teakhaus is less a single board than plantation teak, grown to board: plantation-grown, publicly-parented, Vietnam-made. The lesson for a brand is that telling a two-part supply chain honestly and separating a real certification from a claim reinforce each other, and naming the parent keeps the story earned. Teakhaus made plantation-teak-grown-to-board the identity — proof that a traceable supply chain can anchor a node.

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