Plyboo is one of the brands owned by Smith&Fong Co., a privately held building materials company based in San Francisco. Plyboo was launched as a brand in 1993 by Smith&Fong, the first U.S. company to sell imported bamboo flooring in North America. Although Smith&Fong Co. is the parent company, Plyboo has come to be how the company is primarily identified. Dan Smith and James Fong founded Smith & Fong in 1989 as a design/manufacturer of art-craft quality bamboo pieces. The company's puzzle boxes, trays and tea canisters were sold at Gump's in San Francisco, the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Art Institute and other boutiques and retailers nationwide. Four years later Smith & Fong converted a Chinese tea-processing plant to produce bamboo flooring and worked out a distribution agreement with a Bay Area-based flooring distributor. Under the name Plyboo, Smith & Fong was the first company to bring bamboo flooring to the US market. The first product was an amber flat-grain flooring that is still in stock today. In 1996, Angus Stocks joined Smith & Fong as an equity partner. The company leased its own space and took possession of its inventory. A second color of bamboo flooring (natural) was added, and the company introduced architectural-grade bamboo plywood to the marketplace. Smith & Fong incorporated in 1997, and spent the remainder of the 1990s adding more bamboo flooring and plywood options to its Plyboo offerings. In 2000, the company launched bamboo strand flooring; in 2001, Smith & Fong introduced coconut palm plywood and flooring under the Durapalm brand, and bamboo plywood production moved to a 4’x8’ dimension. More information...
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