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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”.
Taiwanese conductor teaches DOST-FPRDI staff how to make bamboo musical instruments
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A retired professor and consultant of the Taiwan Bamboo Orchestra visited DOST- Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) last 3-7 February 2020 to conduct a training on bamboo musical instruments (BMI) making and tuning. The workshop was attended by 34 FPRDI employees and 2 staff from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP).
Among other things, Dr. Wu Shih-Yin discussed the basic concepts and categories of musical instruments, and the production of BMIs using scientific calculations. He also explained why bamboo is a preferred material for musical instruments in some areas in South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
