[Stoves] Micro Auto Gasification System (digression)

Tue Jan 17 19:37:40 CST 2012

Thank you Crispin for this long overdue insight in the great work NDE has been doing for a long time. I know you don't like to blow your own trumpet to loud but there is nothing wrong with being proud of ones achievements - even here on this forum.

I for one feel privileged to have NDE - and you amongst others - on board for our pilot here in The Gambia.

Cheers
George from the jungle

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Crispin Pemberton-Pigott 
  To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves' 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [Stoves] Micro Auto Gasification System (digression)

  Dear Marc

  New Dawn Engineering www.newdawnengineering,com is a privately owned company dedicated to creating wealth in the hands of others formed in 1981. The best way to do that is to make tools that can be used to create wealth, tools that are well made and well-conceived (with the business plan in mind) to be able to generate income in an environment where there is no electricity. There are several of our hand-operated rock crushers and sand-cement roof tile makers in Cameroon. There are 90 more of the crushers in Haiti processing building rubble.

  It happens that New Dawn Eng makes a couple of stoves, sometimes other large ones, sometimes industrial heat applications for dyeing cloth and so on. We have made manually and hydraulically operated stove making tools, for example press tools for metal parts and clay presses for ceramic stove parts. It is a tiny portion of the business. Stoves have been sold to perhaps 15 or 20 countries. Can't remember.

  We will never become rich doing this because our target market does not have much money, but we have created a bit less than 10,000 jobs in rural and peri-urban manufacturing. So it can be said that we have to a certain extent achieved the primary goals which were to survive and also to launch others in self-sustaining income generation. 

  The activities of the company have generated about 10 patents, two design awards (for a stove), one business plan design award and New Dawn Eng was one of four finalists in the "Corporate Environmentalist of the Year" in the WWF-sponsored 1993 event for Southern Africa. The other three were the Shell Foundation, the Mazda Wildlife Fund and Londolozi Game reserve (who won the final). 

  The company trains all staff including machinists, welders, assemblers, admin, CAD operators and sales personnel 'off the street' to show that people can achieve great things if given the chance and proper training. Manufacturing started in 1984. Thousands of people use equipment copied from our products. In 2009 the manufacturing operation was sold to the staff for a price they could afford. It is as far as I know, the only manufacturing company in Swaziland's Matsapha (formal sector) Industrial park wholly owned by local citizens.

  The fact that I mostly work on stoves these days is by accident and interest. Neither activity gets my full attention. The world is full of valuable distractions. I spend a lot of time researching physical phenomena including climate issues and materials science.

  Thanks for asking. I wish you success in your endeavours.

  Crispin

  please Crispin
  can i know more about your company ?
  thanks in advance

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