In Europe bamboo fiber is not an authorized material to mix with plastic or melamine. For your benefit, we will stop selling bamboo fiber and melamine mixed products for European customers. Please read below note and understand our decision. As the alternative, you can choose our new leading pure PLA collection which is more eco and fully biodegradable.
Ground bamboo, bamboo flour, and many similar substances including corn are not listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 10/2011. These additives cannot be considered wood, and would require a specific authorisation such as exists for ground sunflower hulls. When such additives are used in a polymer, the resulting material is a plastic. Therefore, plastic FCM containing such unauthorised additives are not in compliance with the compositional requirements set out in that Regulation when placed on the EU market.
