How to identify good, safe bamboo products ？

Bamboo owns several characteristics, such as high strength, excellent hardness, and fast-growing, being one of the materials applied on processing, tableware, furniture, fence, and house.

In general, four-years-old bamboo is the best material to processing. When bamboo is mature to harvest, the hardness and strength is perfect to undertake machine processing. The younger bamboo is too soft to be used; the over-mature one is lack of strength oppositely.

Different species of bamboo are for different sorts of application. For instance, the bamboo sword in Kendo is made by Makino Bamboo, which owns extremely high strength. The best one for processing is Moso Bamboo because of high hardness and strength both. The whole figure is huger. In addition, Moso Bamboo is consisted of well-mixed fibers, becoming an ordinary process material currently.

Obviously, bamboo is hollow, which is different from wood. To manufacture giant products, we need to glue slices of bamboo. Cut and slice bamboo into several long strips and flatten the surface finish, plane the strips, and then glue the strips by machines. Next we can acquire a solid bamboo block to do advanced process for raw target product we expect. After polishing, painting, and other necessary steps, the block transforms to be a final product based on requirement. 

During the processing, except glue and paint are chemical elements, other parts are natural. So it is really important to adopt safe additional chemical. Inferior glue releases toxic formaldehyde to damage human respiratory system. Toxic paint on kitchenware or tableware is also harmful to health when it contains with food and body.

Because it is hard to distinguish a bamboo product consisted of toxic chemical, consumers are better to confirm that if the supplier is approved by SGS or domestic inspect institute. It is the only way to assure that you purchase real natural, safe bamboo product in order to protect your and your family’s health