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Plyboo

by Natasha Winnik
November 18, 2015

Starting in 1993, Smith & Fong was the first company in the United States to manufacture and distribute bamboo flooring under the Plyboo brand. Plyboo strand flooring differs from typical bamboo flooring in that the bamboo is not cut into strips and laminated, but instead thrashed and pressed into dense logs. The logs are sliced and fabricated into flooring or plywood, creating a harder, denser material with an entirely new aesthetic. Smith & Fong also makes a line of flooring made from palm trees in which the wood milled are coconut palms that no longer yield fruit. Manufactured using SoyBond, formaldehyde-free resins and are available FSCĀ® Certified 100%.