The Bamboo Factory

Watch the manufacturing process of bamboo flooring from start to finish at The Bamboo Factory in Vietnam.

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Science & Technology

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• Bamboo Factory
• bamboo flooring
• vietnam bamboo

[tmagdahl]

@dvs12cu2 Most of the factories that are doing more than cutting, like drying, heating to activate some glue or heating for preservation or stabilization (I am not an expert in bamboo treatment) take the waste and burn it in a furnace to produce vapor that is diverted to those processes or in very big factories used to generate sometimes a big % of the electricity they use.

[tmagdahl]

@genepierson A very bad name, never buy bamboo it is killing the planet!

[tmagdahl]

@OnePeopleOneChina Yes, Panda Skin but the very thin one made from newborns!

[dvs12cu2]

Can some one pls tell me what is done with the waste? is anything else produced from it as is seems like well, a waste really. 

[genepierson]

Velectrocity is right. This whole process gives bamboo a bad name. When used for flooring, it doesn't appear to be "green" after all. (BY THE WAY, why aren't the workers wearing any eye protection?!!!)

[ngot74]

Amazing, the production is based in Vietnam.

[velectrocity]

The bamboo manufacturing process displayed in this video is twice what it takes to mill in traditional dimensional lumber methods. Power consumption alone really put me off here. We can't ignore the responsibility we must take to verify how the electricity was supplied to all this milling it took to make a massive "glue up" become a viable product. Don't ever frickin tell me a nuclear power plant supplied electricity to this manufacturer, the reality is that it's almost not worth it.

[OnePeopleOneChina]

5:03 Instead of wrapping the bamboo in plastic, Is there a greener way to package it?

[yohanvonlucas]

where's this factory?

[chardnj]

wow.lots of work and big investment to make those products