Details: Bamboo sticks are major raw materials used in the Agarbatti industry. For making incense stick, electric high capacity machines suitable for industries are available but smaller machines for the rural poor, who use knife for making strips and sticks, are not available. Paresh has developed manually operated incense strip making machine, stick making machine and incense rolling machine. The first machine is used to slice the bamboo pieces of definite size, thickness and length. The slices cut are then fed into the strip making machine to produce the sticks. The agarbatti rolling machine is used to add the masala to incense stick. The machines are easy to operate & maintain, and most suitable for rural areas.

Innovator: Paresh Panchal, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

State: Ahmedabad, Gujarat

Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India

Implementing institute: National Innovation Foundation India (NIF), info.nif@nifindia.org