Smith & Fong – makers of Plyboo® and Durapalm® – was founded in 1989 on the premise that bamboo offered unique opportunities and solutions to some of the world’s social and environmental challenges.We began our exploration with bamboo boxes, integrating form and function, making a container that was aesthetically pleasing, but also quite useful. Within four years, we had begun manufacturing bamboo flooring and quickly exhausted our manufacturing capacity in Taiwan. Moving our operations to China, we converted a tea-processing plant into a factory that produced bamboo flooring.At our headquarters in San Francisco, we changed our business model and began distributing the first bamboo flooring in the United States under the Plyboo® brand. In 1996, we introduced bamboo plywood to the American market.
