Business Investment Opportunities in Lagodekhi

• Eco-products manufacturing business based in Georgia, producing premium drinking straws made from natural reed as a sustainable alternative to disposable plastic straws. • Products are designed for hotels, restaurants, cafés, entertainment venues, retail distribution, and export-oriented hospitality channels seeking environmentally friendly packaging solutions. • Manufacturing process utilizes natural reed materials to create visually distinctive and biodegradable straws suitable for premium hospitality and corporate use. • Business has established commercial relationships with internationally recognized hospitality and food service brands, demonstrating proven market validation within the HoReCa sector. • Approximately USD 700,000 has been invested into production development, infrastructure, equipment, and commercialization activities since inception. • Developed proprietary operational know-how across the full reed sourcing, processing, and straw manufacturing value chain. • Historic market demand has reportedly exceeded production capacity, indicating supply-constrained growth potential and strong inbound commercial interest. • Business benefits from favorable regulatory trends, including restrictions and bans on single-use plastic straws that are driving mandatory demand substitution toward sustainable alternatives. • Revenue is generated through the sale of natural reed drinking straws and other eco-friendly products to hospitality businesses, retailers, distributors, and export markets. • Growth strategy includes relocation to a larger production facility and installation of automated manufacturing lines targeting significantly higher monthly production capacity. • Additional product roadmap includes adjacent eco-friendly products such as biodegradable cups, eco briquettes, reed-based pressed boards, and other disposable products derived from reed byproducts. • Positioned for future export expansion into European and international markets where single-use plastic restrictions continue to increase demand for sustainable alternatives. • Operates from a cost-competitive manufacturing base with scalability potential across multiple environmentally focused consumer and hospitality product categories. • Operates with a valid registration certificate.

We have a very good market as big infrastructural projects are going on in the country. - The country has a very good location for export as well. - The country has restriction on export of scrap. So raw material is not a problem. - Recently VAT on purchase of local raw material was removed. - The business has huge potential as there is abundant raw material available locally. - We have preliminary negotiation and we can get another 31 H at USD 150,000 including electrical cell we need to increase capacity.