Strand Woven Bamboo Floorings are now widely used not only in the commercial projects due to its extremely high density(two times harder than oak), but also accepted by many home owners who’d like to purchase a durable and environmental-friendly floor for their apartments. As a manufacturer supplying various bamboo products for global market, we goanna spent a few moments here explaining how do we produce the quality strand woven bamboo flooring in some basic steps.

PART A

Step 1.

We only choose the bamboo logs which are harvested when they reach the maturity 5 to 7 years, otherwise they are either too soft or too brittle.

Step 2.

Once the bamboo logs are sliced into long strips, they’ll be boiled with Hydrogen Peroxide to remove pests and sugar. Some strips will also be placed in a steam tank with high temperature to produce the carbonized color.

Step 3

Dried bamboo strips will be crashed a little bit by this machine below so the structure get loosed and better prepared for further gluing process.

The loosed strips are looking like this:

They will then be placed outside under the sunlight for couple of days

Step 4

The raw strips will be collected and sink into a large tank filled up with phenol formaldehyde adhesive which is environmental friendly and fully in compliance with E1 standard.

Step 5

Now the pretreated strips are going to pass through a long tunnel with series of installed fans so the bamboo raw materials and glue will cool down before pressing together. That’s why we call it COLD PRESS technique.

Step 6

We’re now in the key stage. First of all the glued strips will be weighted at a certain amount before place into an iron mold, which make sure the right density of final plank.

Then they’ll be compressed together by a huge machine which can offer an intense pressure over 2500 ton, resulting the hardest flooring products on the market today.

Now check out the compressed blocks as follows:

These rough blocks will be cut to size and store in the kiln room for at least 4 weeks to reach the balance of moisture.

In Part B we are going to brief you how to turn these semi-finished boards into final products. Please stay with us.

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