Renewable and sustainable:

Unlike traditional hardwood, bamboo can be selectively harvested every year without destroying the green plantation of the earth. Bamboo stems will sprout new shoots during the next rainy season, and it takes only four to six years for them to grow to full maturity. It can take scores, or even hundreds of years for most other trees to mature.

The fastest growing woody plant on earth:

Bamboo is technically a grass, not a tree. It is the fastest growing woody plant on earth - one third faster than the quickest growing tree. Some species can grow up to one metre per day; you can almost watch it grow. "One day it was at ankle height. The next day it was up to my hips. It's amazing stuff!"

The ideal substitute for traditional hardwood:

1. Bamboo is one of the strongest building materials. Its tensile strength is 28,000 lbs. per square inch. Steel's is 23,000 lbs. per square inch.
2. 25% harder than Red Oak and 12% harder than North American Maple.
3. 50% less expansion and contraction than Red Oak.

Bamboo materials:

Bamboo flooring can be as soft as fir - or harder than maple - depending on when it is harvested. We only use bamboo that is four to six years old because it is mature bamboo, with dense fibres inside - most suitable for making flooring.

The glue we use:

The glue we use in the laminating process is an eco-friendly type no formaldehyde.

The finish we use:

The finish we use is from Treffert GmbH. All our bamboo flooring comes prefinished with 7 coats of urethane acrylated/acrylic polyurethane finish - highly anti-scratch and abrasion resistant.

Warranty:

Lifetime warranty against delamination, 25 years for the aluminum oxide finish for residential use and 5 years for commercial use - provided all installation and maintenance guidelines are followed.

Interesting Bamboo Facts

Bamboo has been cultivated for more than 4,000 years in China. It has been used in everyday life in Asia for centuries. Bamboo is a food, a “paper like” medium for messaging, for art works, utensils, furniture, vessels, decoration and more recently as building materials including, flooring, veneer and paneling, decoration as in moldings and wall coverings and pallets and shipping crates.

According to David Farrelly in his book, “The Book of Bamboo”:

• In late 19th Century Europe, bicycle frames typically were made of bamboo.
• Bamboo survived the Hiroshima atomic blast closer to ground zero than any other life form.
• In 1882, Thomas Edison used bamboo filaments in the world’s first light bulb manufacturing.
• The needle in Alexander Graham Bell’s first phonograph was made of bamboo.
• China has more than 1.6 million square miles of bamboo under cultivation and is considered a great natural resource. This grass grows to over 40 feet tall, is a major CO₂ converter and has no known enemies. Even man cannot – so far at least – get ahead of the bamboo forests’ growth cycle.