Bamboo Barbeque Skewers

Business Profile – Bamboo Barbeque Skewers

Bamboo Barbeque Skewers

are popular with both vegetarian and nonvegetarian barbeque lovers across the world. Earlier iron skewers were used widely but is getting fast replaced by bamboo ones, creating a huge market potential in both domestic and exports markets. These are single use and affordable products having no negative impact on environment. Studies have shown that food contamination in bamboo skewers is much less than steel skewers.

The final product is packaged in bundles, packets, cartoons to reach buyers at different places.

Production Process

Bamboo poles are cut into pieces through a cross cutting machine to required length, which may vary from 8 to 16 inches.

Bamboo splits are made from splitting machine and then put on a slicer machine to prepare slices of required dimensions

Bamboo slices are put on a bamboo stick making machine to prepare sticks as per skewer size

Sticks are boiled in water until the water turns yellowish. Then the skewed sticks are dried in sum or using a dryer.

The stikcs are sharpened on one side using machine. They are further dried and polished. and are ready for packaging and shipping.

Investment and Returns

For an industrial set up to make bamboo skewers, the entrepreneur would need to invest 55 - 60 lakhs depending on the planned scale of the business, including 20 - 25 lakhs for working capital. The machines and components needed are bamboo cross cutting machine, splitting machine, slicer machine, stick making machine, skewer making machine and polishing machine and boiling tub. One can easily produce toothpick and chopstick by the same production line by adjusting the machines or adding a single specific machine to the production line. Prashant Bamboo Machines, Arihant Engineering and Anil Enterprises are some of the suppliers of bamboo skewer machine. One can find machine suppliers from India and abroad on e-commerce portals such as India Mart and Alibaba.

Breakeven Point = 39 months

Market

The bamboo skewer market is growing rapidly due to its cost effectiveness in comparison to stainless steel skewers. As single use products, they are more preferred in picnics and marriage parties. The local markets include hotels, dhabas, motels and town side caterers. They can also be marketed through wholesalers and retail outlets. They are also popular on Amazon and Flipkart. One may register on B2B portals such as India Mart, Trade India and Alibaba for bulk orders across the country and globe.