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We Need Biodiesel in Zambia: Seed Capital and Partnership Wanted for Steba Biodiesel Enterprises.[top] [end]About Steba Biodiesel Enterprises and Stephen BandaStephen Banda is a graduate geographer, teacher, editor, adult educator, upcoming entreprenuer and strong proponent of BIODIESEL currently working at University of Zambia Press, Lusaka, Zambia as an Editor. He has also registered STEBA BIODIESEL ENTERPRISES in Lusaka to be located on the outskirts of Lusaka to serve the rural and peri-urban. Major product will be jatropha BIODIESEL. Steba Biodiesel Enterprises is looking for seed capital and market development support and is determined to always strive to improve on its strengths to contribute to national and global development.Contact: e-mail: stevebandaza@.../ or stebabiodiesel1@... or mobile-260-97-7-480944 [top] [end]Why Biodiesel in Zambia?Visualising an era of biofuel from biomass as an alternative to conventional fuel to reduce dependence on the highly polluting and prohibitively non-renewable fossil fuel, we registered STEBA BIODIESEL ENTERPRISES on 29 March 2005 in Lusaka, Zambia to be engaged in a guest to develop and unleash Zambia’s potential of biodiesel from Jatropha feedstock as a reliable renewable cleaner and affordable energy supply. To do this the enterprises will start, own and encourage plantations of Jatropha and establish and manage batch biodiesel trans-esterification plants as well as market and distribute biodiesel and its by-products. Steba Biodiesel Enterprises’ VISION is to establish a 200 hectare jatropha plantation, network a jatropha outgrower scheme around Lusaka and set up a biodiesel processing plant to be processing up to 1,000 ltrs of biodiesel per day and bring the cost of biodiesel in line with petroleum diesel. This will fall under 1% of Zambia's current daily diesel consumption of 1,000,000 ltrs per day. The project will work to reduce the cost of high-grade biodiesel fuel through the development and production of low cost jatropha plants and co-locate the biodiesel production facility with the blending terminal. It will also develop an efficient and effective marketing and distribution network, using preferred relationships with the country's fuel distributors and potential biodiesel customers.Steba is still carrying out more market research on in the rural areas surrounding Lusaka and the peri-urban of Lusaka.We invite joint ventures proposals from Europe, USA, Asia and within Africa. We need funds to help us develop our vast land in Zambia into cultivation of Jatropha. Locally, small-scale farmers wishing to go into outgrower scheme agreements are most welcome and so are those wishing to sell good quality jatropha seeds to Steba at a competitive price. Individuals and business houses interested to be supplied with our products are also most welcome. The enterprises will also be engaged in other agro-processing/agribusiness related activities such as manufacturing of medicated soaps and body lotions from the glycerol – one of the by-product of the jatropha biodiesel, research and development and offering necessary training to stakeholders and clients. It is proposed that the projects will be done in phases with a roadmap to be fine-tuned by interested partners in development and implementation in line with the enterprises motto of 'Making Life Real with Excellence' and guiding principles of teamwork, accountability, re-investment and continuosly striving for excellence. One of our aims in making biodiesel is to strive to come up with solutions that could help improve Lusaka’s catchments area galloping air-pollution and water-pollution problem, cut down on petroleum import bill and have fuel energy security while promoting the agricultural industry. Biodiesel produced from jatropha will be of superior produced exclusively by Steba Biodiesel Enterprises beginning in 2007. Steba Biodiesel Enterprises’ production facility will be co-located with the state-of-the-art B20 high-volume biodiesel blending terminal, making our B20 and B100 available nationally via rail or truck. Privately owned Steba Biodiesel will be a breakthrough agriculture energy company, developing oilseed energy crops and production and distribution networks to bring high-performance biodiesel fuel to Lusaka and Zambia. Our objective is to bring the cost of biodiesel in line with petroleum diesel. We would work to reduce the cost of high-grade biodiesel fuel through the development and production of low cost oilseed crops like jatropha. Steba’s production facility in development would supply Steba’s distribution network, using preferred relationships with the region's fuel distributors and biodiesel customers. The Steba Biodiesel team will include the nation’s leading biodiesel experts, top agronomists, jatropha growers in the Lusaka region, and a well-directed corrupt-free and focused management team. The management team will have an advisory board as its think-tank. Steba Biodiesel will be committed to improving our communities and our environment, and contributing to national security by reducing dependence upon imported fuel. Steba Biodiesel’s goal is to produce high-quality biodiesel in the most energy efficient and environmentally responsible manner. In doing so, Steba Biodiesel Enterprises will further the use of biodiesel to improve local, regional and national air quality, water quality all while supporting Zambia’s agriculture and strengthening the regional and national economy. Steba Enterprises’ business plan addresses four key problems:
Our project has started from Lusaka Province and will be implemented in phases. Phase 1 is a pilot demonstration stage at a 4-hectare farm in Kanakantapa on the outskirts of Lusaka using our jatropha seeds and oil presses and homemade biodiesel with the neighbourhood as a test-market. Currently a small plantation has been established at the Kanakantapa farm with rain-fed jatropha propagated from seeds. Phase 2 will involve expansion of jatropha plantations involving other stakeholders (outgrower schemes) and acquisition of a batch producing plant to be co-located with a blending terminal. Phase 3 will expand to a 200-hectare jatropha plantation, a continuous biodiesel processing plant of up to 250 tons or 1% of Zambia's diesel consumption and axpanded distribution and marketing networks. At the moment, we need assistance to come up with a feasible business plan and implement the biodiesel project in Zambia. We already have a first draft business plan which can be obtained by contacting the Chairman, Stephen Banda. The first draft business plan has so far been forwarded to AREED office in Lusaka for comments and advise. We are seeking seed capital and market development support to always improve on our strengths. So far AREED's Lusaka office has verbally strongly pledged to support by providing processing equipment when the plantations have been fully established. Steba is still looking for more land to be used for jatropha plantations and hope that those that pledge to be stakeholders would fulfil their pledges so that the project succeeds. The Chairman of Steba Biodiesel Enterprises can be contacted at e-mail: stevebandaza@.../ stebabiodiesel1@... or mobile: 260-97-7-480944 in Lusaka, Zambia. Your assistance and support in all ways possible at any stage of the project will be highly appreciated. Let us together serve the EARTH by promoting CLEANER, RENEWABLE BIOFUELS. User:Stephen Banda - 11 April, 2008 | |
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