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Dragonfly Bamboo® is a complete line of solid bamboo products that includes flooring, plywood, baseboard and moldings, stairs and stair rails, all manufactured to the modern standard of engineering, craftsmanship and environmental responsibility. To guarantee the highest quality, Dragonfly Bamboo® maintains its own bamboo forests. Although there are nearly 1,200 varieties of bamboo, we use only Mao bamboo (phyllostachys pubescens) because its diameter, color, structure, density and strength are the most suitable to flooring and accessories.

Dragonfly Bamboo® is treated and dried within 3 days of harvesting to prevent bacterial tainting, and to maintain its light color. Using a "continuous trolley" drying room, bamboo strips are dried correctly and in balance. To darken bamboo, Dragonfly puts the bamboo through a carbonization process, a heat treatment that caramelizes the sugars in the bamboo, darkening it throughout rather than merely on the surface so that sanding does not affect the color. The carbonization process has the advantage of stabilizing the bamboo fibers. All of our glues and finishes are certified environmentally safe.  Finishes are from Treffert.com an advanced oil based polyurethane applied in a six coat process, including UV layer. Dragonfly Bamboo® products are manufactured using German machinery and finishes, and meet humidity and construction requirements in North America, Western Europe and Russia.

Dragonfly Bamboo® comes from family owned factories in Jiangxi province in China, from groves of Mao (Moso) Bamboo, the hardest of the varieties of Chinese Bamboo. The forests are owned by the factory and cared for so as to ensure the long term health of the forest. The bamboo grows to its full height in about a year, but is harvested after four to five years when it reaches full density and hardness. With its characteristics and ability to regenerate rapidly, bamboo is one of the best means to protect endangered hardwoods while providing the properties and attractiveness needed for modern interiors.
 
Bamboo also benefits the environment in which it grows - its broad root structure helps to stabilize the soil and prevent erosion. And Dragonfly Bamboo is made with E1 grade environmental friendly glue, zero formaldehyde glue, which is environmentally friendly, as is our anti-scratch UV coating, produced by TREFFERT in Germany.