About hardwoods...
Hardwoods are the hard, compact wood or timber of various trees, as the oak, cherry, maple, or mahogany. The term 'hardwood' is used to describe wood from angiosperm trees (more strictly speaking non-monocot angiosperm trees). It may also be used for those trees themselves: these are usually broad-leaved; in temperate and boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostly evergreen.
Hardwood contrasts with softwood which comes from conifer trees, which usually are not broad-leaved. Hardwoods are not necessarily harder than softwoods. In both groups there is an enormous variation in actual wood hardness, with the range in density in hardwoods completely including that of softwoods; some hardwoods (e.g. balsa) are softer than most softwoods, while yew is an example of a hard softwood. The hardest hardwoods are much harder than any softwood. There are about a hundred times as many hardwoods as softwoods. (Courtesy Wikipedia)
Hardwoods are a precious commodity that is becoming increasingly popular with today's constantly growing construction industry. Because of the widespread use of these hardwoods, the natural rainforests are being depleted rapidly. Thus the use of the bamboo substrate minimizes the actual use of the hardwood.
Most hardwoods are much harder than their North American counterparts, and are much more stable in an engineered state vs. solid. Their beauty and grains cannot be duplicated by any North American species. Thus, the demand for imported hardwoods keeps growing.
In a nation that is concerned with appearance, beauty, and ecological standards, we offer the use of beautiful, long-lasting hardwoods while minimizing the depletion of our natural resources.