ZenFlooring Direct Ltd. (UK), specialises in manufacturing and exporting a wide
range of pre-finished and unfinished Bamboo & Hardwood Flooring and
Accessories. Our products have been exported to Japan, USA,
Canada
and European countries, and now are becoming very popular in the
overseas market as a result of good quality and competitive pricing.
Unlike hardwood trees requiring years to grow to maturity,
bamboo is a grass that grows to maturity in 3-5 years and is renewably
harvested over and over from the same plants. Bamboo helps mitigate water
pollution due to it's high nitrogen consumption
and also helps to reduce the carbon dioxide gases blamed for global
warming. The bamboo we use is 'panda friendly': it is a species of bamboo
that pandas do not feed on so we are not depleting their food supply.
Bamboo is an extremely fast growing plant on Earth, in fact, bamboo grows one third faster than the
fastest growing tree. Some species (there are over 1000 in the world) can
grow up to 3.3 feet a day and up to 60ft.in height within 90 days. Bamboo
grows so fast that you can almost "see it grow". Bamboo is
truly nature's renewable resource. Bamboo when harvested does not require
replanting, mature bamboo has an extensive root system that continues to
send up new shoots for decades, so harvesting does not harm the plant,
which will produce more timbers.
In the Chinese art of Feng Shui, Bamboo is
considered good Feng Shui for your home, health, happiness and probably
is the best choice for modern living.
The bamboo we use, primarily the Moso species, grows in
the Zhejiang province, southeast of China,
and is harvested after 4 to 6 years, after which time the plant reaches
90' in height and 8" to 12" in diameter.
This bamboo is the hardest of all the bamboo species and
used for our flooring. We supply boards up to 6 ft long as well as 100%
bamboo paneling and plywood up to 8 ft long and 4ft wide.
