Bamboo panels & flooring

Renewable bamboo products for interior design

Bamboo panels & flooring

Renewable bamboo products for interior design

High quality products from renewable bamboo

ChemAxis Lifestyle offers sustainable bamboo flooring and panels made from rapidly renewable bamboo. Not only are bamboo products environmentally sustainable, they also possess the additional qualities of enhanced hardness, strength and durability, and costs of maintenance are low.

Strand woven bamboo used in a renovated house

Bamboo products

The origin of bamboo wood

Although bamboo culms, leaves and shoots have been used by humans since the beginning of history, the use of bamboo as a raw material for the production of wood-like building and flooring materials is a relatively new development. About 20 years ago, factory production of bamboo wood began and a large and growing industry developed from it.

The first generation of natural bamboo flooring consisted of bamboo slats glued together to form "bamboo wood". From this bamboo wood, boards and laminates could be cut for the production of parquet and panels. This led to horizontal bamboo lumber (wide slat bamboo) and vertical bamboo lumber (upright slat bamboo), which are still used today for bamboo flooring and furniture.

High density strand woven bamboo flooring is a later development that was patented and marketed in China in 2006. It is much harder, reaching 2,900 on the Janka hardness scale, compared to 1,910 for jarrah and 1,180 for hard maple or natural bamboo.

High density strand woven bamboo offers the benefits of affordable flooring combined with extreme hardness and a hardwood appearance.

Today, the use of bamboo flooring and panels has become an everyday occurrence. Ever more bamboo flooring is being used in every type of building thanks to the extreme hardness and durability of high density strand woven bamboo or to the graceful appearance of horizontal or vertical lamella bamboo.

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Bamboo panels and furniture boards

Bamboo panels are the ideal choice when it comes to original furniture designs or DIY repairs or improvements. The boards are strong, sturdy, relatively lightweight and have an inviting warm look. With the current pandemic recommendation of working from home, many people are finding that the time saved on their daily commute can be anywhere from one to four hours per day. This provides opportunity for more time with family and also more time for hobbies and interests. For all your DIY activities, try our range of bamboo panels and furniture boards; they can be cut to size, and offer multiple use applications.

Bamboo panels

Many uses for bamboo in modern living

Renewable bamboo products

Bamboo is a grass with many uses

for durable parquet floors, terraces and furniture

BauNetz Wissen (magazine)

Modern bamboo flooring

Flooring from a fast growing natural material (article in German)

Villa in Tessin

Strand woven bamboo flooring in a renovated villa

High density fibre bamboo floor boards provide a bright and natural atmosphere overlooking Lake Lugano.

Warm, natural look using tough "high density" fibre bamboo floorboards

High density fibre-bamboo gives the appearance of a tropical hardwood floor but with no destruction of any endangered hardwood forests.

Boxes, chests, kists and jewellery boxes made from strand woven bamboo.

Strand wovenbamboo boxes and chests, made to order

Evergreen Lifestyle bamboo-wood decorative memory and jewellery boxes and chests are handmade in Switzerland from high density fibre-bamboo.

Strand-woven bamboo hard floors for extreme applications

Durable strand woven bamboo
High density fibre-bamboo is the perfect floor for gyms and fitness centres

With a Brinell hardness of 9.5 kg/mm², strand woven bamboo is one of the hardest and most durable flooring materials available.

Strand-woven bamboo flooring with warm colour tones

Bamboo parquet caramel colour
Stand woven bamboo boards

High density fibre-bamboo parquet floorboards offer a warm and natural look for a traditional country house appearance or a modern minimalist style.

Bamboo parquet

ideal for passive-energy houses

Economical and durable bamboo parquet flooring contributes to the sustainability and energy efficiency of passive-energy buildings and gives a beautiful and natural look.

Soccer stadium with high density bamboo flooring

Football fans walk on bamboo

Bamboo flooring in a stadium

"High Density" fibre-bamboo flooring in Cape Town's Football World Cup 2010 stadium.

Strand woven bamboo flooring

Light-toned natural parquet flooring

Stylish for modern city living.

Bamboo flooring in the country

For a more rustic appearance

Strand woven bamboo flooring can be specially sorted to create a lively look.

Natural coloured bamboo flooring for a light and airy appearance.

Bamboo parquet in colour "Natural"

Bamboo flooring - ideal for rental apartments

Light and elegant for city dwellers.

Parquet bamboo in apartment community living room

Warm ambience with bamboo

Bamboo flooring in apartments and condos

Comfortable living in a Zürich condo with attractive and solid bamboo flooring.

Bamboo flooring in natural colour

Medium-toned bamboo flooring

The manufacturing process preserves the natural colour of the bamboo fibres. The resulting tone, "natural", may vary slightly due to seasonal weather conditions and the time of year the bamboo is harvested as these affect the colour of the raw bamboo.

Bamboo work table

30mm 3-ply bamboo furniture board

Dimensional stability and elegant appearance are characteristics of bamboo boards suitable for furniture manufacturing.

Wohnung mit Bambusparkett Boden in Kanton Luzern

Bamboo parquet with style and excellent performance

exceptionally hard flooring

High density bamboo parquet is characterized by extreme hardness, compressive strength and impact resistance.

Hard, Tough and Stylish

for new builds and renovations

High performance fibre-bamboo pre-finished parquet flooring for commercial and residential use.

Bamboo panels for camper van interiors

Bamboo panels are suitable for all mobile home interior fittings

3-ply bamboo panels offer good dimensional stability for interior cladding and surfaces and fittings in all mobile homes.

für Regalen eingesetzten Faserbambus Massivplatten

Bamboo panel wall elements

Solid strand woven bamboo construction

Bamboo panels provide a warm appearance which can enhance any room.

Bambus Parkettboden in Farbe Coffee (Karamell)

Changi Airport (Singapore)

Tough and durable bamboo flooring

used in Terminal 3 of Changi Airport, Singapore has shown its worth.

Bamboo for durable parquet flooring, terrace decks and furniture

Bamboo is the world’s fastest growing plant and so represents a rapidly renewable resource. Accordingly, this giant tropical grass is rapidly establishing itself around the globe as an architectural and building resource. In addition to favourable aesthetic and ecological considerations, there are a number of other factors which speak for bamboo: no other natural material possesses more elasticity, hardness and stability, while being extremely light weight. This provides many design and functional options for bamboo. So selecting a bamboo floor can be considered responsible and acting in the interest of the environment..

Bamboo "wood"

Bamboo wood is produced by glueing together strips of bamboo, either horizontally or vertically, to yield bamboo-wood with a wide strip or alternatively narrow strip appearance. This can be further processed into flooring, panelling and furniture which will have a characteristic bamboo appearance including regular bamboo nodes.

An alternative manufacturing procedure is based on slicing bamboo culms into very thin strips, which are subsequently treated and compressed into extremely solid and dense bamboo-wood beams. This product, known as 'strand woven bamboo', displays qualities of extreme hardness and density and provides hard, resistant and long lasting flooring, panelling and decking. This type of bamboo-wood can be produced in colours ranging from light natural through to dark woody tones and its striations, and patterns are much more wood-like than bamboo-like.

Bamboo flooring nonallergic - ecological - robust!

On a daily basis, we spend much of our time in close contact with the flooring at home and the work place. Here bamboo can offer an attractive and high quality alternative to hardwoods, whose world-wide stocks are limited.

Bamboo flooring is produced from mature four to five year old bamboo culms, which are finely sliced and air and kiln dried. By pressure-steaming and heating, the sliced bamboo strips are cured to the desired colour. The warm colours achieved are appealing and the resulting durable flooring provides a familiar warm and secure ambience.

Why choose bamboo flooring?

Suitable alternative to endangered tropical woods.
Strand woven bamboo has a similar appearance and surface feel as hard wood flooring, but with several superior characteristics.
Environmentally neutral – bamboo is renewable within 5 years compared to hard woods at 60 years.
Durable, harder and as resistant as tropical hardwoods.
Suitable for both private and commercial buildings, which are subject to high traffic.
Higher wear resistance
Good interior air quality – strand woven bamboo is allergen and CFC-free.
Significantly better priced than tropical hardwoods.

Since 2006 ChemAxis has specialized in the supply of hard strand woven fibre-bamboo and lamella bamboo flooring products, panels and furniture boards. Please send us your queries about products and supply for Switzerland, Germany, Austria and neighbouring countries by web form, E-mail or telephonically at +41 41 377 4075.