So, you are starting a business and want to stay as green as possible in all aspects of your business. A great way to start is by choosing bamboo as the flooring material to be used in your new warehouse.

One of the hardest wood flooring materials you can choose for your industrial plant is bamboo. The toughness of bamboo is one of the reasons its use has grown in industrial flooring applications. Bamboo has some very rigid temperatures that it is subjected to. It can be very hot or cold, depending on the part of the world it is growing in. Not only is it very durable, it is also friendly to the environment.

Bamboo is actually a grass that can grow as tall as 140 feet and is considered to be the fastest growing plant in the world. Although bamboo grows in either extreme hot or cold climates, it takes a lot of abuse to damage it. That is another reason its use in industrial flooring is growing at such a rapid rate.

While it takes 50 years to grow a tree that is suitable for use in industrial flooring, it only takes five years for bamboo to achieve readiness for harvest.

Bamboo Industrial Flooring - Carbonizing

Bamboo flooring is available in its natural light blonde color or in a darker caramel color. The smoking process used to darken it from its natural color is called carbonizing. The longer the process takes, the darker the bamboo industrial flooring will turn out. Carbonizing is a pressure heating process that darkens the bamboo by pressure heating the fiber, thus allowing the sugar contents in the fiber to attain a coffee-colored tone.

Both light and dark colors are equally popular choices for bamboo industrial flooring. If you don’t have many windows or skylights in your warehouse, you might want to consider the natural blonde color. If there is plenty of light available, you might choose a dark color, which will help to hide signs of wear.

Bamboo Industrial Flooring – Environmentally Friendly

The “green choice experts” all rave about using bamboo for industrial flooring because it is a quickly renewable crop that is not damaging to the environment. Contributing to the popularity of bamboo floors is the fact that it is resistant to moisture, unlike hardwood floors, and thus less likely to expand or contract. Also, unlike laminate flooring, bamboo flooring does not have to be artificially colored or dyed, so the product is completely natural and has very low formaldehyde emissions.

Bamboo Industrial Flooring – Other Benefits

A bamboo floor is very easy to clean and is ideal for allergy sufferers because they do not promote dust or harbor dust mites. The other big advantage of bamboo over hardwood is cost. A bamboo floor will cost only 25% of what a hardwood floor costs.

Another big advantage of a bamboo industrial floor is that it can be installed over numerous types of sub-floors such as wood, sheathing grade plywood, vinyl tile, and strand board