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The Combination Of The Sensual With The Spiritual

The Natural Simplicity of Asian Minimalism for your Home.

Why Bamboo?

Bamboo boasts a wide array of benefits.

It grows faster than the fastest growing tree and can be harvested in three to five years versus min. 10-20 years it takes most softwoods. That is because Bamboo is a grass and no tree.

Bamboo deters bacteria grows and absorbs less liquid than other board materials.

Bamboo is extremely strong and durable. Its tensile strength is 28,000 sq/in versus 23,000 for steel.

Bamboo plantations and its related industries provide income, food and housing to over 2.2 billion people worldwide.

TruBamboo is made in China. Our forests are Panda-safe.

In 2001 Charles Norcross learned of a newly developed process for refining bamboo into lumber which had promising potential for a virtually unlimited range of products. Bamboo lumber’s unique combination of strength and beauty make it a choice new raw material for manufacturing durable and attractive houseware products for years to come. TruBamboo’s expertise is the result of exhaustive research into bamboo as a raw material and the best methods for developing products from this unique grass.

TruBamboo begins by harvesting the raw materials from one of the largest bamboo forests on earth. Only the finest stalks are chosen to be used in the precise manufacturing process which utilizes only the highest quality FDA approved food safe glues and employs the most durable construction methods. To obtain the darker shades bamboo is steamed for a longer period of time causing the natural sugars to caramelize and make it darker. Flawless color consistency and unparalleled engineering combined with stylish packaging put TruBamboo’s boards in a class of their own.

An enduring natural resource

Bamboo can be selectively harvested annually. Bamboo provided the first re-greening in Hiroshima after the atomic blast in 1945. Thomas Edison successfully used a carbonized bamboo filament in his first experiment with the light bulb.

Versatile with a short growth cycle

There are over 1000 species of bamboo on the earth. The diversity makes bamboo adaptable to many environments. It can be harvested in 3-5 years versus 10-20 years for most softwoods. Bamboo tolerates extremes of precipitation, from 30-250 inches of annual rainfall.

A critical element in the balance of oxygen/carbon dioxide in the atmosphere

Bamboo is the fastest growing canopy for the regreening of degraded areas and generates more oxygen than equivalent stand of trees. It lowers light intensity and protects against ultraviolet rays and is an atmospheric and soil purifier.

A renewable resource for agroforestry products

Bamboo is a high-yield renewable natural resource: ply bamboo is now being used for wall paneling, floor tiles; bamboo pulp, for paper making, briquettes for fuel, raw material for housing construction, and rebar for reinforced concrete beams.

A soil conservation tool

Bamboo is exquisite component of landscape design. Its anti-erosion properties create an effective watershed, stitching the soil together along fragile river banks, deforested areas, and in places prone to earthquakes and mud slides. The sum of stem flow rate and canopy intercept of bamboo is 25% which means that bamboo greatly reduces rain run-off, preventing massive soil erosion.

Bamboo Facts Provided by: Environmental Bamboo Foundation

The specific species of bamboo used for our products is no food source for Pandas.