This document discusses bamboo as a sustainable resource and its many uses. It notes that bamboo is a fast-growing plant that can be harvested within 3 years. It has over 1,500 documented uses including pulp/paper, construction materials, furniture, and more. The global bamboo market is estimated at over $7 billion currently and projected to reach $20 billion by 2017. India has significant bamboo resources and its bamboo economy is expected to grow over 15% to $260 billion by 2015. The document outlines bamboo production processes and finished bamboo board products.
2. Why Bamboo?Why Bamboo?
Sustainability – Fast growing
Short rotation – Harvestable from 3 yr. onwards
Adaptability – Different agro climatic conditions
Economical – Easily available at cheaper cost.
Environmental friendly – Carbon sequestration, land
reclamation, water harvesting, reduces soil
degradation, etc.
Plantation – Large scale plantations can be brought up
easily.
Uses – > 1500 documented uses.
Social acceptance – Liked by the society from the old
costumed baskets to furnished bamboo flooring
3. Uses of bambooUses of bamboo
Pulp, paper and rayon (major industrial uses)
Agriculture & Handicrafts: Bamboo baskets, stacking
material, agriculture implements and structural material.
Bamboo houses, disaster resistant bamboo buildings,
walling, roofing and structural material
Sericulture, Fisheries, Medicinal
Bamboo seeds and shoots used as food and leaf as fodder
Panels as substitute of traditional timber spp , Plywood,
Particle Board, Hard board, Medium Density Fiber board
Other importance uses: Carbon sequestration, checking soil
erosion, water conservation, wind barrier, bio-fencing,
restoration of degraded land, important social forestry and
agroforestry species
4. Traditional uses of bambooTraditional uses of bamboo
Baskets Stakes Incense sticks
Scaffolding FirewoodHouses
5. Potential areas of increasedPotential areas of increased
demand of bamboodemand of bamboo
• Bamboo shoots
• Furniture and value added products
• Bamboo plastic composites
• Bamboo panel; plywood, particle board, hard board,
medium density fiber board (MDEB) oriented stand
board, wood polymer, Bamboo mat, Bamboo
cement panel
• Bamboo houses including earthquake resistant
houses; structural and building construction material
• Biochar
6. Present and future bamboo usesPresent and future bamboo uses
Advanced
architecture bridges
Advanced
architecture
terminal at Barajas
airport, Madrid
Hotels made of bamboo
Bamboo plywood Bamboo BiocharBamboo lumbar Bamboo cellulosic
ethanol as biofuels
7. Global status of bamboo industryGlobal status of bamboo industry
The world bamboo market is estimated to be > $ 7
Billion/yr. as of 2007 and is estimated to increase to $ 20
Billion/yr. till 2017.
The global bamboo trade volumes are estimated to be
between USD 5.0 billion and USD 10 billion (FAO, 2005).
It is hypothesised that, the market for bamboo processed
products can replace wood to majority of purposes.
It has been estimated that the total market size of
bamboo flooring materials will rise to Rs. 19500 million
by 2015 (NABARD).
India’s bamboo economy is expected to grow by over
15% to touch Rs. 260,000 million by 2015.
8. Sl. No. Genera Sl. No. Genera
1 Arundinaria 8 Oxytenanthera
2 Bambusa 9 Phyllostachys
3 Chimnobambusa 10 Pleioblastsus
4 Dendrocalamus 11 Schizostrachyum
5 Gigantochloa 12 Semiarundinaria
6 Indocalamus 13 Sinobambusa
7 Ochlandra
Principal bamboo genera in India
Bamboo diversity
Bamboo (family: Bambusoideae) constitutes 1250 species.
India constitutes 125 species spread all over the country.
9. Sl. No. Species Sl. No. Species
1 Bambusa bambos 10 D. hamiltonii
2 B. nutans 11 D.stocksii
3 B. pallida 12 D. strictus
4 B. polymorpha 13 D. asper
5 B. tulda 14 Guadua aungustifolia
6 B. vulgaris 15 Meloconna baccifera
7 B. balcooa 16 Ochlandra travancorica
8 Dendrocalamus brandisii 17 Schizostachym dullooa
9 D. giganteus 18 Phyllostachys bambusoides
Economically important bamboo species of India, NMBA
10. Species diversity and utilization diversitySpecies diversity and utilization diversity
125 indigenous species of bamboo in India posses huge
species diversity.
Different mechanical characters confers utilization diversity.
Commercially important bamboo species.
1. Bambusa balcooa - High biomass yielding species.
2. Guadua augustifolia – Strongest poles tensile strength
comparable to steel.
3. Dendrocalamus brandisii – long internodes best for incense
stick industry.
4. Dendrocalamus asper – Edible bamboo
5. D. stocksii – solid bamboo good for furniture, scaffolding and
stakes.
11. CRUSHED BAMBOO BOARDSCRUSHED BAMBOO BOARDS
(CBB) PATENTED TECHNOLOGY(CBB) PATENTED TECHNOLOGY
WHY CRUSHED BAMBOO?
•LARGE SCALE UTILISAITON OF BAMBOO
•CAN BE CONVERTED TO BI-AXIALLY ORIENTED
BOARDS LIKE PLYWOOD.
•CAN BE CONVERTED INTO ORIENTED
MATERIAL LIKE WOOD.
•ANY SPECIES OF BAMBOO CAN BE USED.
•LEAST WASTAGE FROM BAMBOO TO BOARDS.
12. Process: bamboo board
1: Cross Cutting
Longer sections into smaller
2: Removal of external nodes
3: Split into two halves