Product innovation Developing new types of products is an effective way of expanding the markets for bamboo and rattan, and for ensuring that more benefits from their production accrue to the poor producers. Work has focused not only on products in which bamboo can directly substitute for timber wood, but on other uses that tap into the different nature bamboo compared to timber, such as its long fibres. Until about 30 years ago, both bamboo and rattan were relatively untried as materials. Products made from them invariably maintained the raw material nature of the materials — round poles — as they had done for millennia in the different cultures around the world that had grown up using them. Research and development work in China, India and other nations in the 1980′s created the technologies for laminating bamboo wood, and enabling the production of bamboo planks and boards, products that are now widely available in the world’s markets. Bamboo rayon was developed in the 1980s, and was commercialised for use in in clothing in the 1990′s. The development of strand-woven bamboo lumber over the past few years has opened up more new markets that were traditionally the exclusive preserve of timber wood. inbar.int/our-work/trade-development/product-innovation/
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 14:09:52 +0000
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