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Bamboo Materials

04/30/2014 11:59 PM

Hi Guys, Our country is tropical and has huge supplies of bamboo. Im doing some research on how to process and machineries that I need to produce a quality products for the ff. 1. Laminated floor 2. Plyboards Any help is highly appreciated. Thanks, Gil

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05/01/2014 1:16 AM

What do you know?

Start could be here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo_floor

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05/01/2014 2:44 AM

I need to know how to process the bamboo to produce plyboard.

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05/01/2014 2:50 AM

1. You grow it

2. You bring in the harvest

3. You dry it

4. You shred it

5. You add a binder and press it into forms

6. Finish it

7. Sell it

Your question is far to broad and if someone is willing to let you know the whole process so be it, but I think you need to show some initiative to

a) explain why you are incapable to do a basic research yourself

or

b) why you do not understand anything that you found in your basic research!

In the end it is you that wants that business! Why not starting to make it yours by actually looking properly into what you are trying to do!

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05/01/2014 1:49 AM

Use it for mounting super high efficiency low voltage LED lighting. Send me a personal message with your email address and I will send you a copy of some instructions on building the lighting. Its free to anyone who wants to run with it including dusk to dawn and diverter circuits to protect solar charged systems from over-voltage. The instruction include parts supply sources, contacts, and estimated costs. It can be assembled by anyone who can operate a solder gun and a wire nut.

It was designed to provide low cost electrical lighting in remote areas (solar) and low energy usage for grid applications. Here in the US we like to light things up like a
Walmart parking lot. Electricity is cheap and the ability to see the stars is of little or no value. In my travels I saw grid electricity as high as $1.08 KWH and many places without any. To those folks it matters.

It might be useful to you and your efforts may contribute to making electrical lighting both available and affordable for those who struggle with that issue.

Again; send me a private message with your email address and I will head it your way.

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05/01/2014 2:44 AM

u sure u in the right thread?

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05/01/2014 11:23 AM

The world needs a little light just as much as it needs flooring. I guess I should have marked it off topic. I'll be a little more careful in the future.

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05/01/2014 8:24 PM

Steal the method(s) from China!

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05/01/2014 10:56 PM

My student project was use bamboo for piling. Usually bamboos know for having tensile strength higher than steel. But not all the varieties are having similar engineering properties. 3 test piles took load averaging 13 tones!! The scope was just to explore use of bamboo for temporary use. Only the skin ( a few mm thickness ) of the bamboo has the most of useful properties. I suggest you should study all the varieties that is available. Bamboo the most fast growing. You can explore to place a long square box when the are young sproud to make them or mould them for furniture decorative use. All the best.

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05/02/2014 3:01 AM

This is a great contribution to the research. Thank so much for sharing.

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05/01/2014 11:39 PM

www.apawood.org has a lot of technical data on wood and wood products. It also has a lot of standards and info on engineered wood products. You should check them out for technical research.

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Re: Bamboo Materials

05/01/2014 11:47 PM

Personally, I would try and get a job in one of the manufacturing plants for a year or two and get to know the 'tricks-of-the-trade' and see where you would be able to do it better or more efficiently. That time of experience (and possibly even contacts made) will prove invaluable to you as an individual. It's worth the sacrifice if you are serious about venturing becoming a competitor.

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05/02/2014 12:49 AM

One of the latest uses for bamboo is for bicycle frames. There are several small companies that build them and do-it-yourself information is available. It is claimed that a bamboo bicycle frame is comparable to carbon fiber.

I would like a bamboo bicycle equipped with wooden wheel rims from Italy and a leather saddle from England.

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05/02/2014 1:47 AM

I figure it would be processed the same as any other (wood) fibre to make into the engineered materials you mentioned.

Searching the interweb would yield more results than this forum as others have already suggested.

A bit expensive to transport as it is mostly empty inside. A lot of bulk in its pre processed form for the material it yields.

My 2 cents worth is that, where I am, which is also tropical and has loads of bamboo, it is used either as is after drying for cheap flexible structural members, even complete bridges or split and used as flooring or lightweight partitioning.

It is even split and used as concrete reinforcement for roadways and ground level factory/warehouse floors.

Not split it is used as rafts for floating houses. Just poked in under the house one length at a time till the house floats at the right height. Its closed cells are watertight.

Split and shaved into strands it is woven for whatever you want woven bamboo mats for.

Yeh, used a lot pretty much as is here.

Splitting machinery is free to operate and own. Bamboo is placed on highways and the traffic does the rest.

They make plywood here too. They use wood from trees.

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Re: Bamboo Materials

05/02/2014 2:16 AM

This is your best starting point: "The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) is an intergovernmental organisation dedicated to improving the livelihoods of the poor producers and users of bamboo and rattan, within the context of a sustainable natural environment." http://www.inbar.int/

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05/02/2014 3:55 AM

before becoming the panel ,bamboo passes through many processes it will be cleaned first ,carbonated boiling ,stripping ,strip plaining ,keep is till mature ,glazing ,heat pressing and the panels are ready for flooring .

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05/02/2014 8:20 AM

It is used here in India in raw condition for making scaffoldings. Very common use here.

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