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Agenda
• Objective
• Bamboo Market
• Bamboo in Ethiopia
• Current Status
• Supply Chain
• Industrial Processing of Bamboo
• International Market for Bamboo Products
• Stakeholders
4. Objective & strategy
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Fortune Enterprise will become an African exporter of compressed panels and
decking material produced from domestically grown bamboo, thereby
providing the world market with a highly competitive alternative for hardwood
composites and bamboo products from China.
Key success factors:
• Tubes of Ethiopian highland bamboo are more straight, contain less starch and more
fibre than the Chinese Moso varieties, making it very suitable for outdoor applications.
• Lower labour costs & raw material price (-20%) than China
• Incentives Ethiopian government: profit tax holiday and zero import tax
• Technical assistance secured
• Experienced international Staff 20 Germans and 5 Chinese
• High certified quality (EN350-2; E1, EN-350-Part 1, EN 335, CEN/TS 15083, EN 113, EN
ISO/IEC 17025:2005, ISO 14000; ISO 9001)
• Cooperation and market access through Elephant Bambusprodukte GmbH.
5. Objective & strategy
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Specific company objectives:
1. Source bamboo splits through an outgrower scheme and own plantations in Ambo and
Sidama
• outgrower scheme: 2,000 ha, 4,000 farmers organized in some 30 coops, 30 collections
centres
• 1,500 ha plantation, 500 ha established per year from own nursery (cuttings)
• at full capacity, factory requires 2,2 mio culms annually
• first four years, raw material supply solely through outgrowers
• first harvest plantation in yr 4 (8%), full productivity yr 12
2. Establish industrial bamboo production in Ethiopia consisting of two regional pre-processing
plants (Tikur Inchini , Ambo and Titicha, Sidame) and a main factory in Welmera producing
compressed panels destined for the export market.
3. Produce 245,000 m2 of compressed bamboo panels during first year of production (2013)
worth Eur 3.9 Mio, increasing to 500,000 m2 per year from year 3 onwards (2016) worth
Eur 15 Mio.
4. To lay the ground for further investments in the Ethiopian bamboo sector. Investing in more
private plantations and product diversification.
6. What has been done ( 2009-2011)
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• Bamboo Task Force
• In October 2009, Public Private Partnership worth € 400,000. Main activities:
- analysis into competiveness of Ethiopia bamboo
- numerous feasibility studies to determine technology and product
- market & technology investigation in Europe and China
- Initial inventory and assessment of standing bamboo culms in Ambo and Sidama
- prototypes development from Ethiopian Bamboo species for testing and certification
at Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research
- establishment of outgrowers scheme in Ambo, encompassing over 250 farmers
organised in 5 Coops
7. What has been done ( 2009-2011)
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• Commercial contract with Elephant Bambusprodukte GmbH for the first 750,000m2
valued at EUR 18.75m annually for next five years.
• Profound technical assistance secured during the start up phase of the project.
• Land secured for plantation development ( 1,500 ha at two different regions), nursery
site ( 1 ha each, at two locations), pre-processing plants ( 5 ha each, at two locations),
and main factory ( 10 ha).
• Finalization of proforma based machinery and equipment list.
• Finalized production planning and flow chart.
• Award of highly competitive grant programme in June 2011 to Elephant and FE
partnership, funded through the Dutch Private Sector Investment Programme (PSI).
The total project budget is € 1.5 mio of which 50% is a result-based grant.
• Raised debt totalling Eur 7Mio, raised Eur 5M in Equity, total Project Budget Eur 12M
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Bamboo Development 2011 - 2013
PPP with GIZ
Acquiring Private Sector Investment
Third Party
Funding Long Term Loan
Strategic Alliance
International Climate Initiative
EU Energy Facility
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Bamboo Development 2009 - 2011
PPP with GIZ
Market
Development
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Bamboo Development 2009 - 2011
PPP with GIZ
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Bamboo Resource in Ethiopia
• Ethiopia has 1 million ha
of bamboo
• It accounts to 67% of
African‘s bamboo
resource
• 30% being high land
bamboo and
• 70% is low land bamboo
12. Status quo of Bamboo in Ethiopia
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+ ETH accounts for 67% of Africa's Bamboo resource
+ 1 Mio. ha Bamboo coverage in total (estimation)
+ 30% highland, 70% lowland bamboo
+ Bamboo is one of the fastest growing plants on earth
with great potential for reducing pressure on forests
+ a quickly-renewing and sustainable source of biomass
+ vital role in environmental amelioration, bio-diversity
preservation, soil and water conservation
+ can serve as substitute for traditional woods which are
mostly imported from abroad due to their scarcity in
Ethiopia
13. Status quo of Bamboo in Ethiopia
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- Image Problem
• Value of Bamboo has not been recognized yet
• Unawareness about high quality of Bamboo
- Weakness of the Economic Environment
• State-led and NGO initiatives of the past have promoted the
bamboo sector only on household level
• Development of the private sector has been insignificant so far
• No industrial use of Bamboo so far
- Lack of Credit and Financing
• No microfinance for MSEs like farmers and cooperatives so far
• Poor capital endowment and access to credits have prevented
industries from up-scaling their bamboo-related activities
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Characteristics of Yushania alpina
• Yushania alpina is high
land bamboo
• Height is 5-19.5
meters(average12 m.)
• The diameter ranges
from 5-12.5cm
• The average weight is 8
kgs (oven dry wt)
18. Supply chain
Raw material resource.
1 – From existing farmers
bamboo plots (2000 ha)
2- Establishing our own
bamboo plantation (1500
ha)
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Scope of the involvement
• 4000 farmers
• Average of 0.5 ha
• 30 cooperatives
2000 hectares of
bamboo plots
2 million culms per year at the beginning
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China study tour
• Fortune Enterprise has done a study tour to China two
times to understand the WSB production scheme.
• Some of the WSB production factories visited in china
were:
1. Werner flooring
2. Anhui Fengtian Bamboo Manufacturing
3. Wuxi Senda Bamboo & Wood Products CO.LTD.
4. Xingli ( Everjade) Bamboo Products Co
5. Three WSB factories in Anji province
6. DASSO flooring …etc
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China study tour
• Fortune Enterprise after visiting some WSB
factories in China , has selected the below
stated machines for its production of WSB
outdoor decking.
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Source of Bamboo
• 30 Bamboo Co-operatives
• 2 million bamboo culms
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Collection Center
Manual Cutting
Manual splitting
45. Main Industrial plant ( after the press
45 machineries)
Length cutting
Width cutting
and plank
dividing
machine
Four side Curing
planning and chamber
slicing
machine
46. Main Industrial plant ( after the press
46 machineries)
Top bottom
sanding
Width
Endgrooving
(tongue and
groove)
Universal Tool
Riffiling, Grinder
profiling,
Length
grooving
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Main Industrial plant (supplementaries)
Gen set Boiler
Transformers Air compressor
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Main Industrial plant (supplementary)
Weighing scale
Dust extraction Waste gas
treatment
Weighing bridge
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Machinery supplier visited
• Fortune Enterprise has visited many bamboo making
machinery companies
• Some of the companies visited are:
1. Qingdao Guosen
2. Anji Yukang Machinery
3. Hangzhou Garden Corporation
4. Shanghai Wood Based Panel Machinery - Dieffenbacher
Group
5. Fujian Jinmen
6. Changshan hot Press manufacturer .. etc
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Machinery supplier selected
• Form the companies visited Guosen, Anji Yukang and Garden
corporation has provided quotation for the full line
machineries.
• From the information gathered Guosen presses are currently
big in the market.
• They have provided us reasonably better specification of the
machineries compared to the other two manufacturers.
• even if Also Guosen is a bit expensive in price, compared to
the other two they have helped us with our production flow,
machinery requirement and factory design.
• Finally after considering the above selection criteria's, We
have decided to buy the full line machineries from Qingdao
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Pre-Processing Plant
• The two Pre-Processing plants are located
1. Sidama Zone, Tetecha Wereda,355 km from
Addis Ababa.
Total Area allocated=50,000 m2
1. West Shewa Zone,Tikur inchini,147 Km from
Addis Ababa.
Total Area allocated=50,000 m2
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Construction of the preprocessing plants
• The construction of the pre-processing plants
Can be categorized in to two:
1. Sub-structure-Mainly includes,
Excavations, earth works and flooring either
with concrete or cobble stone.
2. Super structure-Mainly includes
Construction of bamboo columns, beams and
trusses.
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Main Industrial Factory
• The Main industrial plants is located
1. West Shewa Zone, Wolmera Wereda,20 Km
from Addis Ababa.
Total Area allocated=100,000 m2