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smith & fong offers urea-formaldehyde-free, fsc-certified bamboo sports flooring

San Francisco, Calif. – Bamboo flooring and plywood pioneer Smith & Fong Co. now offers urea formaldehyde-free, FSC-certified bamboo sports flooring for professional, institutional, corporate and educational environments. Called PlybooSport, with three independently rated systems that meet both DIN and EN standards, this floor covers the range from basketball and volleyball to aerobics and dance. “With the increase in “character”—or sapwood—in currently available maple sports floors, Plyboo®Sport brings back consistency in color and grain,” Smith & Fong president and founder...

smith & fong first to commercialize soy-based adhesive system used in bamboo manufacturing operations

October 5, 2011 — San Francisco, Calif. – Smith & Fong Co. today announced it has fully commercialized a soy-based, formaldehyde-free adhesive system in all its PlybooPure® bamboo flooring, PlybooSport® bamboo sport flooring lines as well as their full range of PlybooPure urea-formaldehyde-free bamboo plywood products. “We now have very healthy inventory on our SoyBond™ bamboo flooring and plywood products here in North America,” Smith & Fong president and founder Dan Smith said. “We’ve spent the better part of two...

smith & fong introduces fsc certified strand bamboo architectural plywood and flooring

November 17, 2010 — San Francisco, Calif. — Smith & Fong Co., manufacturer of Plyboo® bamboo architectural plywood and flooring, today announced the company has launched a new range of FSC certified PlybooStrand® bamboo plywood and flooring. “Strand bamboo has long been popular among the architecture and design community for its performance and aesthetic qualities,” Smith & Fong president and founder Dan Smith said. “Adding FSC certification ensures managed forestry and the associated LEED MRc7 credit.” Smith said FSC PlybooStrand...

our new customizable fractal wall panels… and the fractool.

Formally debuted at this year’s Dwell On Design show in Los Angeles, our new Plyboo Fractal panels are some of the most visually stimulating products we’ve introduced in a while. Part of the same range of carved panels as our Reveal™, Linear™, Linear Sound™ and Sound™ wall panel products, Fractal panels are completely customizable architectural panels whose design utilizes the isosceles triangle. Fractal panels, when combined with the online Fractool, comprise one of the most revolutionary new product concepts we have...

partnering with oregon state university and university of oregon

Recently we donated a large amount of Plyboo bamboo plywood and partnered with Oregon State University’s Renewable Materials and University of Oregon’s Product Design schools for a program called Avery Wood Products, a collaborative class aiming to design, prototype, and produce an outstanding product. This year the project demands its students’ best efforts to create a brand, product, and teams dedicated to using Plyboo. The team of advantageous creators and innovators are given an extraordinary opportunity to incorporate its collectively diverse skills, backgrounds, and areas...