Gallery
See it before you order
Product, line, grove and packaging photographed as buyers actually receive it. Every frame is captioned and described in text, so the gallery reads for a person, a crawler or an assistant that cannot see the image. Physical samples can be posted on request from the contact page.
What does GreenLife Bamboo's production and product range look like?
The gallery covers four subjects: finished products photographed with scale references, the manufacturing line from size setting through polishing to head sharpening, the managed grove the bamboo is cut from, and packaging formats from 200-piece inner packs to kraft export cartons.
- Product shots with a scale reference in frame.
- Factory stages named by machine, not by mood.
- Packaging shown as buyers receive it.
- Each image carries a caption and a full text description.
Facility
GreenLife Bamboo, Hussain Avenue — front elevation of our Bengaluru premises.
Front elevation of the GreenLife Bamboo building at Hussain Avenue, Bengaluru, with the etched-glass GreenLife Bamboo natural chemical-free signboard on a stone-clad facade
Culm yard — harvested bamboo graded and stacked before crosscut.
Stacks of harvested bamboo culms graded by diameter in the receiving yard
Products
Bamboo skewers 2.5-6.0 mm, fanned by diameter.
Fanned bundle of natural bamboo skewers in assorted lengths and diameters
Flat kulfi and ice-cream sticks, 93 mm and 114 mm.
Packed bamboo kulfi and ice-cream sticks with rounded edges
Coffee stirrers, 90-140 mm, beside a kraft cup for scale.
Bamboo coffee stirrers in a holder beside a kraft cup of coffee
Lollipop sticks holding finished confectionery.
Bamboo lollipop sticks holding coloured candy on a white background
Paddle and teppo skewers for grill and canape service.
Bamboo paddle and teppo skewers fanned out
Round chopsticks, polished and paired.
Bundle of round natural bamboo chopsticks with a single pair in front
Bamboo-stick cotton ear buds beside raw cotton.
Bamboo-stick cotton ear buds fanned beside raw cotton bolls
The range together: skewers, chopsticks, depressors and buds.
Assorted bamboo skewers, chopsticks, depressors and ear buds laid out on slate
Factory
Culm line — graded culms feeding the first cut.
Bamboo culms being fed into the first cutting station on the production line
Radial splitting machine opening culms into strips.
Radial splitting machine opening bamboo culms into even strips
Filament size-setting machines running strips to diameter.
Rows of bamboo filament size-setting machines running strips to diameter on the factory floor
Cutting to length, sampled with a calliper at +/-0.1 mm.
Bamboo sticks being cut to length on the sizing station
Rotary drum polishing removes surface hairs before sharpening.
Rotary drum polisher tumbling bamboo sticks to remove surface hairs
Head sharpening — skewers, chopsticks and toothpicks only.
Bamboo skewer tips formed into uniform conical points after head sharpening
Sourcing
Managed grove at golden hour, culms cut above the node.
Managed bamboo grove at golden hour with tall green culms and morning mist
Three-year culms: the maturity we cut for fibre strength.
Close view of mature green bamboo culms and leaves in the grove
Applications
Catering — 4.0 mm skewers on a live counter.
Marinated vegetables threaded onto bamboo skewers on a catering counter
Ice cream and kulfi - flat sticks in production.
Kulfi and ice cream bars on flat bamboo sticks
Cafes - stirrers at the condiment bar.
Bamboo stirrers in a dispenser at a cafe condiment bar
Packaging
Kraft export cartons packed and labelled for dispatch.
Kraft export cartons of bamboo sticks packed and labelled for dispatch
Retail packs - printed sleeves for shelf and D2C orders.
Retail packs of natural bamboo skewers in assorted lengths