Bamboo bioproducts (bbp) is established to build the first bamboo bioproducts mill producing Bleached Bamboo Sustainable Kraft (BBSK) for the Global consumer tissue and personal hygiene industry.
The concept is to transform idle sugarcane lands in western Jamaica into prosperous, sustainable bamboo farmland, which will be harvested on a managed and progressive basis and converted in our co-located bamboo bioproducts mill, employing Best Available Technology (BAT).
Bbp will be developing pulp grades in close co-operation with our customers to ensure they meet their requirements for fibre characteristics and specific properties compared with softwood virgin fibre . The bamboo pulp will be sold as an alternative green fibre for consumer tissue and personal hygiene products, helping global consumer tissue producers to reduce pressure on woodlands and meet SDGs.
Bamboo is an extraordinary renewable resource with unique values and properties. It grows locally in developing communities in the tropics and subtropics and is a highly versatile material. Bamboo can produce a vast range of sustainable goods, employment opportunities and ecosystem services.
Our world needs alternative non-wood fibres to survive. We believe our bamboo pulp and by-products will help support a circular economy and therefore, a sustainable future.
Strong international demand for the replacement of traditional tree-based fibres has produced a growing need for the creation of a bamboo sector within wood-based product industries.
Bamboo is classified as a grass and for paper pulping purposes it's considered an annual plant. The physical and chemical characteristics of bamboo fibres allow for them to be used for a much wider variety of tissue and paper products than most other grass pulps.
Other than bamboo, non-wood fibres sources including straw, bagasse and kenaf are not suitable for tissue due to their fibre morphology. Only bamboo satisfies the requirements for tensile and softness. Bamboo pulping conditions are also superior to eucalyptus. Ultimately, bamboo's tissue technical properties are similar to paper grades made from softwood so it is an excellent alternative.
