What is bamboo and where is it used?
Although bamboo is commonly grouped with wood, bamboo is not actually a kind of wood, but rather a woody grass. Bamboo, a native plant to tropical regions with heavy rainfalls, grows much faster than hardwood and has a different cellular structure. Bamboo is a flowering, permanent and evergreen plant, which belongs to the grass family of Poaceae. It is a versatile, strong, renewable as well as environment-friendly material that can be easily grown for various purposes. Bamboo is also considered the fastest growing woody plant on earth.
Bamboo is one of the commercially cultivated crops in China and it is also considered as ‘a poor man’s timber’. China enjoys the most abundant bamboo resources in the world, which is famous as “bamboo kingdom”. With very long history of planting bamboo, China is the largest producer of Bamboo in the world. The yearly bamboo production in the country is estimated at around 4.5 million tons. The natural planting area of bamboo is about 5 million hectare, about 1/4 of total bamboo forest in the world, which offers fellable bamboo about 500-600 million plant. Bamboo plays rather important role in protecting environment, conserving of water and soil, tourist industry, etc. Since bamboo keeps green in all seasons, with quite nice appearance, which is widely applied in landscape decoration, offering good tourist and leisure places. Moreover, the bamboo shoots are consumed as food and are considered good source of nutrition.
Bamboo industry offers work, food and houses for more than 2.2 billion people in the world. More than half of population in the world is involved to using and trading bamboo. According to calculation, bamboo can be used for more than 1500 function, especially in China and Japan, who have long history of using bamboo. Bamboo are widely used in construction, traffic, furniture, paper, etc .
In China, bamboo is the most integrated part of the culture and is used as a substitute to woods. It is mainly used as construction material, furniture, pulp, plywood, etc. Products vary from solid bamboo, strand woven bamboo, raw bamboo canes, etc. Since the products are natural, with smooth texture and grace appearance, the bamboo products are quite popular in the market. As more and more people are aware of protecting environment, people prefer bamboo products than wood when consuming.
REBO (Fujian Golden Bamboo Industry) is a professional manufacturer of bamboo products, who takes the mission of advancing the global environmental protection process and reducing ecological resource consumption. REBO focuses on bamboo products only. The main products are strand woven bamboo decking, wall cladding, horse stable planks, flooring, fencing, ceiling, grilling, furniture, etc.
REBO bamboo has applied for the urban landscape, hotel engineering, villa decoration, building materials supermarket, horse stable, etc. The business has now covered more than 30 countries and regions such as Europe, America and the Middle East, where advocates green, environmental protection and health concepts.