It may sound odd, but Jiangqiao Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd, a Chinese company, is manufacturing bamboo keyboards made completely of bamboo. Since launching last October, they’ve received orders for 40,000 finished units.

China’s sole bamboo keyboard producer, Jiangqiao swears these wooden keyboards are as strong and long-lived as their plastic counterparts. “You needn’t worry that it might crack even if it drops from a one-meter-high table. Its user-life is no shorter than a plastic one,” says Zhang Lina, a sales manager for Jiangqiao.

Much of the bamboo used in the keyboards is leftover scrap from bamboo floorboard manufacturing.

“It sells well in the European and American markets, but not the domestic market for now,” Lina said.The keyboards sell for between $12 and $44.

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