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Design



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Quality and Profit

 

The Bamboo Plant

 

Ecology

 

Bamboo FSC




Styling rooms, this individual design clearly distinguishes itself from all other types of wood. All bamboo products are ideally suited for modern or classic furnishings. PLYBOO® Flooring offers perfect harmony with all your furnishings, as all raw materials are sold by the same company.

All raw bamboo canes used by PLYBOO® are marked at an early age, in order to determine their exact age later on. After the careful and selective felling, the canes are processed immediately. Only the outer shell is used for processing. PLYBOO® only utilizes selected, straight middle pieces of first class quality. The glueing method determines the finished product. By pressing horizontally or vertically layed bamboo lamella, a horizontal or vertical lamella structure as well as solid wooden panels in 3- or 5- layers structure are formed.

Bamboo is an ideal alternative to endangered exotic woods and has excellent technical qualities, which are in no way inferior to domestic woods. Especially in the beauty industry bamboo offers extra benefits with its natural-ecological karma.
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bamboo products are produced from specially selected raw materials, all of the same age. Special environmentally friendly glues and the most modern production techniques disinguish us from cheaper discounters. Our list of references illustrates the confidence that architects and builders have in the quality of PLYBOO® products.

PLYBOO® flooring - floors are harder than oak (an average Brinell hardness of 4.0 N/mm in comparison to oak and beech approx 3.4 N/mm or Canadian maple approx 3.8N/mm. Swelling and shrinking tendencies of bamboo are less than in other common types of wood (beech/oak/maple), the "working" of the flooring is therfore less. Joints in the flooring floors are smaller. Due to its special structure (bamboo has a fibre structure which only runs in one direction) and its extreme hardness, PLYBOO® flooring flooring offers excellent value-to-last a lifetime.

Bamboo is extremely fast growing (up to 1 m per day). After 5 yrs the bamboo cane is ready for felling. Bamboo grows and reproduces itself by its root system. For each cane felled a new one grows. Clear cutting and the consequent erosion of soil is impossible. Also the Panda Bear is by no means endangered by the use of bamboo, since he feeds himself on a different type of the over 1500 known varieties of bamboo which we use for our production.

Additionally there are vast regenerating bamboo forests worldwide. Estimates are around 30 million hectares. Due to its growth, bamboo produces a lot of biological mass. This is of great importance, for each bamboo produces more oxygen than it needs for its growth, therefore bamboo is an important filter of CO2 and contributes to a better world climate.

The Bamoo Information Centre of the Netherlands is the only supplier worldwide with a FSC comparable certification by the INBAR (www.inbar.int), the international parent organization for bamboo and rattan. We would be pleased to send you the original letter of INBAR: info@plyboo.nl

 
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