Bamboo
Overview
Bamboo is the plant of the future, the essence of the 21st century, an excellent substitute for traditional wood products.
Bamboo is one of the oldest and most fascinating living entities on the planet. It is one of the fastest growing plants in the world and the greatest producer of biomass after marine algae.
A bamboo plantation regenerates every 5 to 7 years, while an oak forest takes more than 50 years to develop and a pine forest more than 10 years. A single bamboo plant can produce up to 200 bamboo canes in just 5 years.
Bamboo can be harvested at a rate of around one tonne per hectare per year, whereas an average pine forest will only produce around 4 tonnes of wood. The average yield from a bamboo plantation is 25 times greater than that of any conventional forest.
After 5 years growth, the plant becomes adult, hardens and develops into a material similar to wood. At this point, it stops growing and regenerates unaided from its own roots. There is no need to plant new stock, which explains why bamboo is an inexhaustible natural resource.
Bamboo is naturally associated with pandas, which feed solely on it. The harvesting of bamboo Phyllostachys Pubescens (also known as moso), the raw material of BambooTouch®, is not, however, in any way a threat to this protected species, as they feed on other varieties of bamboo, which are lower growing and therefore more accessible to the animals.
Bamboo has been used for hundreds and hundreds of years as a building material in a wide range of applications. Thanks to its extraordinary physical properties, Bamboo surpasses construction timber and steel in many respects: hardness, durability, stability, elasticity, and contains neither acids nor resins. Engineers and architects are well aware of bamboo's incredible capabilities and are incorporating it more and more into modern techniques.
The economic boom in bamboo in the West is linked to the growth in environmental protection legislation and the fight against deforestation, representing as it does a natural, ecologically sound alternative to help limit the depletion of the world's timber stocks.
A bamboo plantation regenerates every 5 to 7 years, while an oak forest takes more than 50 years to develop and a pine forest more than 10 years. A single bamboo plant can produce up to 200 bamboo canes in just 5 years.
Bamboo can be harvested at a rate of around one tonne per hectare per year, whereas an average pine forest will only produce around 4 tonnes of wood. The average yield from a bamboo plantation is 25 times greater than that of any conventional forest.
After 5 years growth, the plant becomes adult, hardens and develops into a material similar to wood. At this point, it stops growing and regenerates unaided from its own roots. There is no need to plant new stock, which explains why bamboo is an inexhaustible natural resource.
Bamboo is naturally associated with pandas, which feed solely on it. The harvesting of bamboo Phyllostachys Pubescens (also known as moso), the raw material of BambooTouch®, is not, however, in any way a threat to this protected species, as they feed on other varieties of bamboo, which are lower growing and therefore more accessible to the animals.
Bamboo has been used for hundreds and hundreds of years as a building material in a wide range of applications. Thanks to its extraordinary physical properties, Bamboo surpasses construction timber and steel in many respects: hardness, durability, stability, elasticity, and contains neither acids nor resins. Engineers and architects are well aware of bamboo's incredible capabilities and are incorporating it more and more into modern techniques.
The economic boom in bamboo in the West is linked to the growth in environmental protection legislation and the fight against deforestation, representing as it does a natural, ecologically sound alternative to help limit the depletion of the world's timber stocks.
