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About Ipe Woods USA - Premium Exotic Hardwood Supplier
The premier online supplier of exotic Brazilian hardwoods. We've built our reputation on quality materials, fair prices, and exceptional service.Explore our guides and resources.
Why We Named Our Company "Ipe"
Our company was named "Ipe" because it should always be your first choice for outdoor lumber applications. While Ipe decking is not the only option we offer, its performance in durability, longevity, and value makes it unmatched.
Sometimes Ipe may not fit every budget or design preference, and customers may choose other hardwoods. However, any experienced contractor should present Ipe as an option because it consistently outperforms alternatives.
By leveraging strategic partnerships and purchasing large quantities of wood, we're able to save you money not only on materials but on shipping as well. As the premier online supplier, you can expect outstanding customer service and top-tier hardwood.
Best of Houzz
2018 - 2023
Our Values
What sets us apart from other lumber suppliers
Quality First
We supply only the highest-grade hardwoods, inspected for quality before shipping.
Sustainability
We plant 5 trees for every order and source only from ethical, responsible suppliers.
Customer Focus
Award-winning customer service. We guide you through every step of your project.
Best Prices
Direct importing and bulk purchasing allows us to offer the lowest prices guaranteed.
Responsibly Sourced Ipe
At Ipe Woods USA, we believe in environmental responsibility and ethical sourcing. Our buyers make every effort to purchase Ipe wood from suppliers who follow responsible forestry practices.
We work only with partners who demonstrate transparency, legal harvesting, and a commitment to rainforest protection. If a supplier is found to be involved in unsustainable or illegal practices, we immediately end the relationship.
Legal & Compliant Importing
We are fully CITES compliant and Lacey Act Compliant and Legal. Learn more about our commitment to responsible sourcing:
5 Trees Planted Per Order
We plant five trees in Brazil for every order we receive
What You Can Expect From Us
We're committed to providing the best experience when purchasing hardwood lumber online.Installation guides • Maintenance tips • All resources.
National Hardwood Lumber Association
The oldest and largest hardwood association, providing third-party inspections and certifications.
International Wood Products Association
Supporting legal and responsible harvesting of wood products worldwide.
Shipped Direct to Your Job Site
All of our hardwood lumber can be delivered directly to your home, job site, local depot, or business anywhere in the United States, as well as locations in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
We work with multiple carriers to secure the lowest prices and fastest delivery available. Need your order shipped straight from South America? We can arrange direct shipments with expedited transit.
Worldwide Delivery
Including full container loads
When You Call Us, You're Talking to Someone Who Actually Knows.
Every member of our sales team has a minimum of 10 years of hands-on experience working specifically with tropical hardwoods. Not lumber in general. Not framing. Not composite decking. Tropical hardwoods: the species, the sourcing, the installation, the long-term performance, and everything that can go wrong if you get any of it wrong.
That distinction matters more than it might sound.
The hardwood industry is full of people who describe themselves as experienced. And many of them are, in adjacent trades. Someone who spent a decade framing houses knows lumber. Someone who ran a decking crew knows installation. But tropical hardwood is its own discipline. Ipe behaves differently than domestic species. Cumaru has specific acclimation requirements. Garapa's density affects fastener selection in ways that someone without direct experience won't think to mention until it's too late. These are not things you learn from a product sheet. They're things you learn from years of working with the material.
When you talk to someone at Ipe Woods USA, they are not reading from a script. They are not reciting specifications they memorized in a training session. They are telling you what they know, because they've seen it, worked with it, and solved problems with it across hundreds of projects.
That expertise is not a sales tool. It is a commitment to your project's success.
We believe the most important thing we can do for a customer is make sure they get the right material for their application, installed correctly, the first time. That means telling you things other suppliers won't: when a species isn't right for your climate, when your planned installation method will cause problems, when your timeline doesn't allow for proper acclimation. An experienced team gives you that. A scripted one gives you a quote.
Our customers come back, and they refer their contractors, their architects, and their neighbors, because the advice they got from us proved right. Not because we told them what they wanted to hear, but because we told them what they needed to know.
That is what 10 years of tropical hardwood experience looks like in practice.
You've Probably Already Seen Our Wood
Most Americans have walked on it, sat near it, or looked up at it without knowing it. Our material is at theme parks your kids have been to. On the façades of skyscrapers you've seen in city skylines. Around the pool at hotels in Las Vegas. At restaurants you've eaten at. On training facilities for professional sports teams.
We don't name names. Our clients value discretion. But when the project absolutely cannot fail, when the specifications are tight and the stakes are real, these organizations choose us. Not the other way around.
The same team and the same level of attention that goes into a 50,000 square foot commercial installation is exactly what you get on a 400 square foot backyard deck. That's not a tagline. It's how we operate.
How We Got Here
Our founder Steven Rossi didn't start in lumber. He got into tropical hardwood sideways, through a marketing job at an importer in 2014. The first time he picked up a piece of Ipe, he couldn't stop asking questions. By 2017 he'd started Ipe Woods USA because he was tired of watching the industry give customers bad advice and worse service.
Today that stubbornness has taken us to some of the most demanding projects in the world.