Bamboo Materials

What do you know?

Start could be here:

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

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

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!

Strand Woven Bamboo Flooring Manufacturing Process ...

u sure u in the right thread?

Steal the method(s) from China!

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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/

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 .

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