Hot Bambú Lump Charcoal

As founders of Maya Bamboo LLC, Carbon Bamboo L3C’s former name and structure, we conceived of, branded, and brought to market Hot Bambú lump charcoal; a high performance grilling charcoal sustainably produced from bamboo.

We were approached by Whole Foods to do a test market season with our product, as an exclusive, at one of their markets in Wexford, PA.

We sold 600 bags of charcoal in one season with little marketing support, which supplied us the market statistics we needed for support of our sustainable alternative grilling product. This helped us understand consumer readiness.

Our product sales fuel our work. The company’s future success depends on our ability to take steps to develop projects close to home, grow production capabilities with those projects, which then allows us to near-source and not unsustainably ship our products great distances. Developing partnerships for supply, and raising capital for their success is our focus.

Pine Creek Journal, July 5th 2012.