Comparisons to WPC, wood panel and bamboo products
There are many material options for builders, homeowners, designers, architects, such as wpc, traditional wood and bamboo material. What are the differences among these three materials? People may ask what the best material is and how to choose them? Here are some comparisons among these three materials for reference.
1. Eco-friendly: Environment is very important to us. Protection to the environment is a vital issue in the world.
| Strand woven bamboo | It takes just 5 years to become useful material. This means a lot in globe resource sustanability. Utilization rate: over 90%! |
| WPC | Made from raw plastic and sawdust. Plastic is made from petroleum, a limited resource. Recycle of wood-plastic is very hard. |
| Solid wood | Growth circle of high-class hardwood is 40-100 years, just the trunk is used. The Utilization rate is only 30%. |
2. Impact to toughness
| Strand woven bamboo | Density: l.2g/cm3 Impact toughness more than 1732 0N High density/ hardness resista nce+a bra ison-proof! |
| WPC | Through the production method, wood-plastic is fragile, liable to fracture, low impact resistance and easily get scratch. |
| Solid wood | Only high-class hardwood, like rosewood has the high density and toughness for weara bility and impact-resistance. But long growth time, excessive deforestation, hardwood resource is getting rarer and rarer |
3.Hydrolytic resistance
| Strand woven bamboo | Thickness swelling rate of water absorp-tion: 0.4% in 34 hours! (EU standard: <2%) strong anti-deformatin with high hydroscopicity. |
| WPC | Waterproof and moistureproof |
| Solid wood | Wood is strong in water absorption. Solid wood flooring waterproof depends on the coting. So it requires strong care in wetness protection. It easily gets bubble and transformation. |
4. Rot rersistance
| Strand woven bamboo | Through our carboni-sation procedure and additionally our glue process: It is very hard to rot. Don't need any preservations! |
| WPC | Wood-plastic is antiseptic, but with low weather durability. |
| Solid wood | All antiseption techniques for wood are with method of strong chemical infiltration. In taking care of environmental protetion level, the antiseption is far not so high like our strand wooven bamboo. |
5. Formaldehyde Emission
| Strand woven bamboo | Lower than 0.2mg/L. It meets the standard of Europe and USA complete . Much lower as the national standard. Green & Environ-ment-friendly! |
| WPC | The range of the product quality is very wide and depend according to the production method. |
| Solid wood | Different brand and technique has its own formaldehyde standard. Consoliated wooden floor is higher in formaldehyde outgiving. |
6. Moth proofing
| Strand woven bamboo | Carbonization technology remove starch, sugar and protein, and kill insect eggs and fungi, That generate the extreme hardness and Strong moth-proov-ing. |
| WPC | Termite prevention is good and better than wood |
| Solid wood | Termite prevention can only realized with preventive coating or applied surface |
7. Fire resistance
| Strand woven bamboo | Polymerization and curing of phenolic resin for food packaging with high fire resistance and high flame retardant coeffi-cient. |
| WPC | Compare to normal wood it is relatively high in fireproof. |
| Solid wood | Easy to burn as the natural property of wood fiber |
8. Color texture
| Strand woven bamboo | The grain of bamboo after processing is similar to high end rosewood. |
| WPC | Artificial texture, low durability impact, the looking is not appealing. |
| Solid wood | Rosewood with outstanding texture is very high in price. |
9. Quality grade
| Strand woven bamboo | Quality and feature is the same as tropical wood |
| WPC | Low weather durability, low wear resistance. |
| Solid wood | Depends on the species, quality ranges a lot. |
10. Warranty time
| Strand woven bamboo | 30 years |
| WPC | 3-6 years |
| Solid wood | 3-8 years |
From these comparisons, probaly you will well know how to choose it. Definitely strand woven bamboo decking is a good material to build your deck. It is strong, dense, renable and durable. It is an endless resource and very friendly to the environment. Future needs bamboo!
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