Indian company to manufacture BPSU-developed cookstove

BALANGA CITY, Bataan – An Indian company is interested to commercially manufacture and distribute Bataan Peninsula State University-developed cookstove.

In his letter to BPSU President Greg Rodis, Phoenix Products’  Sameer S. Kanabargi said, “We are impressed by the simplicity of the technology and wish to have collaboration and disseminate this technology to the underprivileged and give the poor people  affordable, accessible, and efficient cookstove in India and South Asian countries”.

“We have full-pledged manufacturing and sales set up”, he also wrote.

Phoenix Products learned the invention at the Clean Cooking Forum in New Delhi, India last October where Engr. Jonathan Lacayanga, BPSU Abucay Campus Director demonstrated the vertical-fed cookstove he invented.

The cookstove has been recognized by Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, making BPSU one of the about 430 institutions in the world belonging to the alliance and the first in the Philippines.

Meanwhile, Bataan Peninsula State University (BPSU) Abucay Campus Director Engr. Jonathan Lacayanga   cited  Governor Abet Garcia’s appreciation of university inventions.

“During our yearend gathering,   former board member Guding Ferrer  said in his message that the governor appreciates the  inventions  in our university”, he said.

“It is nice to know that the governor recognizes what we are doing in the university particularly the inventions we have”, he said.

Lacayanga is an inventor himself as he developed the vertical-fed biomass cookstove. “I think the governor is more than willing to further help university inventions”, he said.