Huang Tu-shan, a bamboo craft master from Zhushan Township, Nantou County, was born in Nantou County in 1926. He received the National Craft Achievement Award in 2008 and is one of the few bamboo craft masters who studied fine bamboo workmanship at the Zhushan District Bamboo Craft Training Center. He prefers to use makino bamboo produced in Zhushan for weaving. Bamboo craft masters such as Chiu Chin-duan, Lin Hsiu-feng, and Tu Su-ying all studied under Huang Tu-shan.
To bring bamboo back into daily life and offer consumers a more natural choice other than plastic, Yuan Tai developed Taiwan's first bamboo toothbrush. The subsequent products they developed—bamboo straws, bamboo cups, bamboo bowls, and bamboo ear picks—are all everyday items. With the goals of a circular economy and zero waste, they aim to protect Taiwan's traditional local industries and be friendly to our environment.
Established after bamboo craftspeople including Chen Ching-fu from Zhushan Township, Nantou County jointly founded the Green Bamboo Production Cooperative in 1997, it covers an area of 1.2 chia and brings together numerous workers such as bamboo farmers, bamboo craftspeople, and bamboo industry professionals. Cultivating over 120 bamboo species, it is an important bamboo cultivation farm in Taiwan. It is located in Fuzhou Community, Zhushan Township, Nantou County.
Puyuan Arts and Crafts is currently Taiwan's most robust enterprise in the research and development of laminated bamboo technology. It was founded by Mr. Dai Zheng-you in 1979. In its early days, the company primarily focused on exporting Calcutta bamboo furniture. After 1999, it also began researching and developing laminated bamboo, becoming one of the bamboo enterprises that benefited from the release of Ang Lee's 2000 film *Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon*.
Taiwan Takada Co., Ltd. is currently one of the enterprises with the most robust bamboo charcoal technology R&D capabilities in Taiwan. Founded in 1980 by Mr. Liu Ching-yun, the company was taken over by his son, Liu Chung-yueh, in 1988. Following a transition in 1997 to focus on bamboo charcoal technology research and development, the company has acquired the capabilities to develop and produce products such as bamboo charcoal, white bamboo charcoal, bamboo vinegar, and bamboo charcoal yarn.
Yueshan Workshop was founded in 2002 in Zhushan Township, Nantou County, by Liu Chao-ming, a bamboo artisan and bamboo material processor from the township. It is Taiwan's last remaining smoked bamboo processing plant, renowned for using a smoking method to transform the fresh, green color of bamboo into a deep brown hue.