In Brgy. Amanperez, this town, a factory that produces an array of bamboo products rose around 2017. Initiated by Dr. Cezar T. Quiambao, it is called CS1st Green Agro-Industrial Development (AID) Inc. Dr. Quiambao took inspiration from the existing bamboo industry of Anji, China after he was able to visit the place.
The company's first manager was the town's former Councilor Levin N. Uy, and according to Uy, CS1st Green AID is the country's "pioneering company in the establishment of vast bamboo plantations, biggest bamboo nursery, and [largest] manufacturer of engineered bamboo products, specifically the bamboo floorboard."
The company's operation is currently under a new president, Engr. Bernard O. Bawing, and its Operations head is Forester Webon Lomong-oy.
The factory, among other things, has the capacity to manufacture 7,070 sqm of floor boards per month. Aside from floorboards, CS1st Green AID also produces briquettes, handicrafts (miniatures, etc.), and other products.
Bayambang is unable to supply its need for a steady supply of bamboo wood, so CS1st Green AID has resorted to importing raw bamboo wood from all over the Philippines. It has also been growing the kawayan tinik bamboo variety at a 300-hectare plantation with nursery in Sitio Mapita, Brgy. Laoag, Aguilar, Pangasinan, plus in six other towns in Western Pangasinan, to help supply future needs while reforesting the denuded rocky landscape. Towards these twin purposes, this enterprise has partnered with the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources and the Department of Trade and Industry.
The company uses new technology in growing bamboo seedlings. Instead of traditionally growing from seeds or transplanting bamboo shoots from their mother tree to other spots, it uses the so-called "one node culm technology" to grow seedlings that can be readily transplanted.
High technology is also used in the processing of bamboo wood for use as coal briquettes and floorboards. The briquettes are said to be superior to the usual coal because it easily catches fire. The company has piloted various machines from the Department of Science and Technology-Forest Products Research and Development Institute or DOST-FPRDI for this purpose, namely sowing machine, splitting machine, planing machine, boilers, carbonization furnaces, hot press and gluing machine, and finishing and packaging machine.
Leveraging the numerous advantages of bamboo including "low weight (ease of transport/handling), unusual strength, low cost, sustainability (grows rapidly and abundantly)," and multiple uses, CS1st Green AID Inc. is an "inclusive growth" enterprise as it employs farmers and other folk from the grassroots level while at the same time instrumental in helping government realize its goal of regreening the Philippines on a massive scale.
References:
https://vimeo.com/122939594
https://www.facebook.com/csfirstgreen/
http://www.dost.gov.ph/knowledge-resources/news/48-2017-news/1289-dost-s-bambooo-charcoal-technology-helps-pangasinan-firm-in-bamboo-charcoal-making.html
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1084006?fbclid=IwAR2AwQ0WNSwP_28VnnUaCOl_CX4AnSTgL80erAAjLdPZ9UfOI1JU0XumqUU
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