Bamboo is one of the oldest and most fascinating living beings of the planet.
It is one of the quickest-growing plants in the world and also the plant producing the largest biomass, after seaweed.
A bamboo forest is regenerating every 5 years, while an oak forest needs more than 50 years, and pine more than 10 years. Only one bamboo plant can produce up to 200 bamboo canes in 5 years.
When harvesting bamboo, one can harvest about one tonne per hectare and per year, while an average pine forest will only produce 4 tonnes of wood. The average production of bamboo is 25 times higher than any other traditional forest.
After 3 to 5 years growth, the plant becomes adult, hardens and becomes a material similar to wood. The growth then stops and the plant regenerates alone from its own roots. It is not necessary to plant new plants. This explains why bamboo is an inexhaustible natural resource.
Bamboo is naturally associated to pandas, of which it is the sole food. However the exploitation of the Phyllostachys Pubescens bamboo, BambooTouch® raw material, does not at all menace the existence of these protected animals, as they feed on other varieties of bamboo, lower and hence more accessible for them.
For centuries bamboo has been used as building material in multiple applications. Thanks to its extraordinary physical characteristics, bamboo surpasses building wood and steel in many respects: hardness, lifetime, stability, and elasticity, without containing acids or resins.
Engineers and architects, well aware of the incredible capacities of bamboo, incorporate it increasingly in modern technologies.
The economic boom of bamboo is tied to the emergence of laws relating to the protection of nature and fight against deforestation. It is a natural and ecological alternative for limiting the global exhaustion of the world wood reservoir.
Bamboo is the plant of tomorrow, the species of the 21 st century, and an excellent substitute for floorings in traditional woods.
