Staramaki
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staramaki
καλαμάκι από φυσικά στελέχη σιτηρών
drinking straws from natural wheat stems
Staramaki is a social company based in a rural region in Greece that utilizes the most widely produced local product, wheat, to create a viable eco-friendly alternative to single-use plastic straws and at the same time create employment opportunities and promote social cohesion.
20/10/2026
GREENWASHER™
Το πρώτο πλυντήριο πλαστικών καλαμακιών. Με οικολογική συνείδηση!
Επιτέλους, σώζουμε τον πλανήτη!
💧 Νερό για πλύσιμο.
⚡ Ρεύμα για στέγνωμα.
🧴 Απορρυπαντικά για καθαρισμό.
Δώρο τα μικροπλαστικά !
GREENWASHER™
Πλένει καλαμάκια.
Ξεπλένει συνειδήσεις.
* Το παρόν είναι προϊόν μυθοπλασίας. Όπως και η επανάχρηση των πλαστικών καλαμακιών.
19/10/2026
“Paris est toujours une bonne idée.”
As the global hospitality community gathers in Paris this November, Staramaki brings the authentic beauty of nature directly to the table.
Grown straight from the earth, our wheat straws offer nature’s pure answer to elevating the guest experience while delivering true circular sustainability for hotels, bars, and restaurants.
We invite hoteliers, restaurateurs, and hospitality visionaries to experience the subtle elegance of Staramaki firsthand at EquipHotel.
🗓 2–5 November
📍 Paris Porte de Versailles
📌 Hall 7.3 · Stand S094
Join us at Stand S094 to discover an uncompromising vision for contemporary hospitality.
Nature doesn’t make identical straws. So how do we sort them? 🌾👀
Here’s a sneak peek at Staramaki’s new sorting machine—bringing an eye for detail to every stem. ⚙️
A little preview today… a closer look soon!
28/09/2026
The story of a straw can begin with a cup of coffee.
We recently welcomed colleagues from Nespresso’s Thessaloniki boutiques back to staramaki to experience our manufacturing process up close and meet the people behind our natural drinking straws.
Their visit brings a meaningful connection into focus: Nespresso compost helps nourish the fields where we grow the stems that become straws for Nespresso. Coffee, soil, agriculture and manufacturing become connected through a shared commitment to making better use of resources.
Welcoming the boutique teams into this process matters. A story experienced firsthand carries a different weight when shared with a customer. Behind each straw are fields, people, skills and a partnership they have now seen in action.
Thank you to the Nespresso teams for joining us again, for your curiosity, and for helping this collaboration grow.
310 straws per minute. 🌾⚙️
A major milestone for Staramaki.
When we started working on automated individual packaging, many told us it would be extremely difficult—if not impossible—to achieve high-speed production with a natural material that is inherently non-uniform.
Every wheat stem is different.
Different diameter. Different curvature. Different geometry.
Today, our packaging line is running at 310 individually wrapped straws per minute — more than 18,000 per hour.
It took engineering, experimentation, countless adjustments and persistence.
They said it couldn’t be done.
We did it.
And this is only the beginning of scaling Staramaki.
17/08/2026
🌾 Harvest 2026 is complete.
Another agricultural cycle has come to an end in the fields of Kilkis — and the raw material for the next generation of Staramaki natural straws is now safely collected.
For us, harvest is much more than the first step in production. It is where Staramaki begins: in the field, together with our farmers, experimenting with varieties and cultivation practices to produce better stems while creating value from a simple agricultural material.
Over the coming months, these stems will go through our production process in Kilkis and be transformed into millions of natural drinking straws — grown by the land, not manufactured from plastic or paper.
A big thank you to Hatgiparadisis Costas, our farmers, and everyone involved in this year’s cultivation and harvest. Every season teaches us something, and every harvest brings us one step closer to making natural plant-stem straws a real alternative at scale.
From the field to the drink. Naturally. 🌾
Μεταξύ ανατολής και πανσελήνου
Harvesting Staramaki is not a conventional harvest.
Our process starts in the field with a very specific sequence.
First, the combine harvester removes only the flower/head of the plant, separating the grain while leaving the valuable stem standing.
Then, we return to the field to mechanically cut the stems at the right length and collect them carefully by hand.
Why so much attention?
Because for us, the stem is not waste.
It is the raw material of Staramaki — a natural drinking straw created directly from the plant’s own hollow structure.
This harvesting method allows us to preserve the quality, length and integrity of each stem, so it can later be sorted, sterilised and transformed into a functional, biodegradable straw.
From field to straw, every step matters.
Nature provides the design.
We build the process around it.
23/06/2026
Dawn in Kilkis.
Off to the fields where every Staramaki begins. 🌾
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2nd Klm Kilkis-Metalliko
Kilkís
61100
Opening Hours
| Monday | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Tuesday | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 - 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 - 18:00 |
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