| Bamboo flooring from Vietnam is unique and | | | | number of companies in Vietnam are employed in the |
| environmentally friendly, comparable to some of the | | | | manufacturing and exporting of bamboo flooring. The |
| best hardwood flooring. In Vietnam, bamboo flooring is | | | | manufacturing process consists of a number of steps, |
| known as bamboo parquet. As Vietnam and China are | | | | starting with the slicing of freshly cut bamboo shoots |
| the major locations of bamboo harvesting, they serve | | | | into strips. These strips are then treated with boiled |
| as the major source of bamboo flooring exporters. | | | | water to remove the starch, and then they are dried. |
| Some of the best bamboo floorings in the United | | | | Finally, bamboo floorings are made by laminating the |
| States are imported from Vietnam.Even though the | | | | strips into solid boards. To protect the flooring from |
| manufacturing processes are the same all over the | | | | pests, it is treated with a preservative either before or |
| world, the specialty in Vietnam bamboo flooring is that | | | | after lamination. Urea-formaldehyde (UF) adhesive is |
| freshly cut bamboo strips are used for processing. | | | | usually used in the lamination.Bamboo flooring is |
| Freshly cut bamboo has the added advantage of | | | | available mainly in two shades: natural and carbonized |
| offering high-quality flooring material. The major portion | | | | or amber color. The darker shade (caramelized) is |
| of bamboo used in flooring is grown in the Pacific | | | | obtained by the prolonged pressure heating of |
| Rim.The beginning of bamboo flooring industry is traced | | | | bamboo. The shade of bamboo flooring might differ |
| to 1990. It was then that Doug Lewis, the founder of | | | | with different companies, and it is available as |
| bamboo hardwoods, moved to Vietnam to set up a | | | | single-layer and double-layer bamboo flooring.High |
| factory producing bamboo flooring. Over the years, the | | | | export-quality bamboo flooring from Vietnam exhibits |
| bamboo market in Vietnam has grown, and many | | | | hardness, brightness, and freshness and is now one of |
| traders are joining the bamboo flooring market.A | | | | the most favored forms of flooring. |