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DOST launches mobile app
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Even in the comfort of one’s home, the public may now check on the various technologies, researches and services of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). This, through the recently launched DOST mobile app which can be downloaded thru this Google play link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bizooku.dost&hl=en
The mobile app aims to “provide reliable information about the different services, research and development (R&D), projects, programs and knowledge products of the DOST, the different agencies and institutes, and regional offices to achieve inclusive growth and socio-economic development,” said a post at the DOST Facebook page
Multi-awarded bamboo company thanks FPRDI for support
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“Bambuhay”, a bamboo-based social enterprise which has won several international awards in the last two years, recently thanked the Department of Science and Technology’s Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) for its technical support to the company. The major producer of bamboo straws in the Philippines, Bambuhay uses bamboo farming and entrepreneurship to help farmers fight poverty, and protect the environment.
While onlookers may say that the firm’s success is largely fuelled by its leadership’s aggressive drive to help poor farmers, its founder and CEO, Mark Sultan Gersava, acknowledges that Bambuhay owes part of its growth to the help they received from DOST-FPRDI in 2017 and 2019.
“The technical assistance from the Institute was key to improving the quality of our products and consequently enabled us to compete in the world market,” Gersava said.
Rubberwood Processing Center soon to operate in Zamboanga Sibugay
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The DOST- Forest Products Research and Development Institute (FPRDI) recently established a wood treatment plant and a furnace type lumber dryer (FTLD) in Tambanan, Naga, Zamboanga, Sibugay. Together with the Rubberwood Processing Plant, these two new facilities complete the Rubberwood Processing Center in the province.
“We are happy to announce that the Rubberwood Processing Center will soon be operational for use by local furniture makers. It is equipped with facilities to convert senile rubberwood trees into high-value products,” explained Project Leader Engr. Victor G. Revilleza of FPRDI’s Technology Innovation Division.
The establishment of the Center is part of the project “Processing and Utilization of Senile and Unproductive Rubberwood (Hevea brasiliensis) Trees for the Production of High Value Furniture, Mouldings and Joineries”.
