Bamboo uses range from traditional handmade items to advanced industrial applications. This section serves as an expanding resource for understanding the incredible versatility of this renewable material. We cover a wide range of topics from furniture making and textiles to engineered mass timber and biofuels. These resources provide the technical foundation needed to utilize bamboo as a high performance alternative for professional product development, environmental restoration, and modern infrastructure.
Bamboo is a sustainable energy source that produces 1 kWh of electricity from 1,2 kg of bamboo. This is similar to the biomass requirements for wood products, but outperforms other types of biomass sources such as hemp, bagasse or rice...
In recent years different technologies have been developed that allow bamboo fiber to be used for a wide range of textile, fabrics, yarn, cloth, clothing and fashion applications such as T-shirts, pants, underwear, socks, towels, bedsheets, pillow covers, blankets, mattresses,...
In Latin America, farmers often use bamboo as beehives. Bamboo internodes (the part between 2 nodes) of larger diameter bamboo species such as Guadua angustifolia or Dendrocalamus asper are very well suited to make a bamboo beehive. A closed piece of bamboo is suspended...
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