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Manufacturing Process
These organic dinner and
snack plates and bowls are made from the leaf sheaths of palm trees (specifically called Areca plants in India).
Areca plant is one of the famous crash crops in southern India
and its single leaf is as wide as 12 inches and over 4 feet in length. Several dinner plates can be cut from a single leaf.
This may be assumed to be one of the most valuable forest products of south India.
These leaves have been used as lunch and dinner plates in India
for many generations, but the use of areca sheaths as dinner plates for use in western countries is a new phenomena. To this
end, instead of using a roughly cut leaves as plates, a modern manufacturing process is adopted. The process is outlined as
follows:
The leaf sheaths are
collected, washed under hot high pressure water and dried in sun for 2-4 days. The plates are then cut, hot pressed, inspected
and redried indoor using ovens, and then packaged in dry air tight containers for shipment. No dangerous chemicals are used
during the manufacturing process and hence these plates can be classified as organic and biodegradable.
Our Employees
Employees play an important role in our business. We pay fair wages and the company supports several hunderd families
in each of our two locations.
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Our Company
This use of the bio-degradable items of nature is the most
appropriate substitute for the avoidable plastic menace which erodes the very existence of the humanity in future. These plates
have been exported to Switzerland,
Germany and other west European countries for the past 8 years,
and Ecovision, Switzerland and its subsidiary
in US wants to import them to US for possible sale to general public.
Our Shop
Here is a picture of our farm
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