|
Well, it's official now. Chardust has joined up
with the Chemelil Sugar Company Ltd. in Western Kenya to establish a
prototype plant for the manufacture of charcoal briquettes from waste
bagasse.
With an enabling grant from Britain's DFID
(Department for International Development) through their Business
Partnership Program (BPP), Chardust and Chemelil, a parastatal
company, aim to have a plant up and running within 18 months producing a
minimum of 5,000 kg per day of 'CaneCoal'.
Production trials with bagasse at Chardust's
Nairobi facility have consistently turned out a good usable substitute
for lump charcoal made from wood. We hope that by focusing on the
utilization of huge quantities of agri-industrial waste available within
East Africa- including the coffee, timber and rice industries- we can play a
significant part in reversing the trend of deforestation in this
region.
elk
| 
