New showroom open for Clerkenwell Design Week

New showroom open for Clerkenwell Design Week

Bamboo Surfaces has partnered with TOTO, a large furniture manufacturer, in the opening of their new showroom. The festival offers exclusive product launches, seminars, workshops, art and music - so its exciting to be part of.

We are holding a brief but informative seminar, ‘Bamboo – A sustainable
alternative to timber’, as part of Clerkenwell Design Week and the opening of TOTO’s new showroom at TOTO, 140–142 St John Street, London EC1V 4UB
on Wednesday 26th May 2010.

5.00pm drinks and nibbles
5.30pm seminar
6.00pm – 8.00pm refreshments and the opportunity to view bamboo samples and chat to the Bamboo Surfaces team. We hope you can join us – please RSVP by 14th May to lisa@mosobamboosurfaces.co.uk

New Product: Moso Forest

Moso brings the forest to your floor. Instead of cutting the bamboo pole into strips and pressing them together into a floor board, the whole trunk is being used. The wall of the trunk is flattened with a special process and it serves as the top layer of a 3 ply board.

The result is a very robust yet naturally beautiful bamboo floor board. With the rock hard bark of the bamboo no additional finish is needed, a wax finish could be considered if you wanted to close the gaps between the floor boards. This product really does bring nature to your home or business!

3100mm Veneers

Moso started the production of 3100mm (10 ft) veneers. The initial lead times were quite long but a few changes have been made to production and the whole process should be much quicker now. The side pressed veneer is now running and selling well and once a new slicing machine arrives in the next few weeks, the yields of the plain pressed will increase too.

FSC

Moso now supply FSC certified bamboo. However there is still a limited availability of FSC raw material, which makes the material more expensive than the normal bamboo veneer. The good news is that the availability is slowly improving though!