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Dear visitor and international investor,
We
warmly welcome you, if this is
your first visit to Africabiz
Online - The ultimate newsletter
on trading and investing in 49
sub-Saharan African countries.
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PROTECT
YOUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The featured article of
this issue deals with Intellectual Protection (IP).
With Clyde
Knight Jr. you will learn all about "Patent", "Trademark",
"Copyright", "Trade Secret", "Witnessed
and Understood", "Unfair Competition" and so on.
If you are a creator in any line of business - choreographer, writer, artist,
IT technician, scientist; etc.; - you need to protect your hard work from pirates
and greedy sponsors; and you can do it from the inception of your idea to the
final stage of registration of a trademark or a copyright. Wherever you live
and whatever you do. Without loosing your pants!
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African artists have been ripped off their rights for not having taken
the precaution to protect their IP. Even nowadays African countries cultural
riches are easily stolen, marketed and exploited by pirates who confiscate all
the financial benefit.
- African creators and African countries decision makers will find very useful
information reading Clide Knight Jr. article. They will learn about efficient
and bargain way of protecting their hard work; and their countries cultural
heritage which are shamelessly looted by bold foreigners. Click
here for more.
- INVEST US $ 50,000 AND BECOME AN OIL-KING
Last month, in Issue N°
25, we discussed about the availability of huge amounts of valuable raw material
(oil containing seeds, nuts and kernels) necessary to setup a profit making
oil industry in many African countries which are wasted for lack of investors'
initiative.
Click here for more.
In this issue we move a step further and consider the profit making potential
of a small scale oil processing operation. Click
here to review the second delivery.
- SEND
ANY FILE / DOCUMENT ENCRYPTED OVER THE NET
In our "Control
Your Desktop" section we have many time raised the question of security
and confidentiality; and introduced you to several utilities which permit
the strict and secure confidentiality of mail exchanges over the Internet.
If you are in serious business you should pay attention to the delivery of your
mail to your business partners. To make sure that documents are seen and read
only by the one concerned.
In this issue we exposed a way of transmitting
any kind of document or file to your corespondent "For his eyes only".
Click here for more.
Many thanks for dropping
by and see you here next month.
Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor
of AFRICABIZ
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BUSINESS
OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA
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EDIBLE AND INDUSTRIAL OILS AS INCOME BUILDING POWER FOR AN AFRICAN COMMUNITY.
PART II
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promotion board of ISSUE N° 25 - Click
here for more - an introduction was made to oil industry based on various
oil containing seeds, nuts and kernels. An oil industry based on the processing
of these seeds, nuts and kernels could be considered as an "economic catalyst"
and launching pad for the economic
development of an African country's regional territory. In issues N° 20;
21 and 22
another kind of "niche" operation FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN PRODUCTION
has been extensively developed. KENAF INDUSTRIES were considered in
issues 23 and 24.
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Different techniques and methods of extracting oil
Oil extraction
can be mechanically performed - with oil presses, expeller; or with solvents.
Mechanically performed extraction are more adapted to small scale oil processing.
Solvent extraction which provides product of pure quality and better yield is
capital intensive and more suitable if large quantity of raw materials are available
in a production area.
Small scale or industrial oil processing operations
produce an interesting by- product: Oil Meal (10 to 60% of the original
raw material weight); which can be either a valuable human food (Sesame seed
cake) or excellent animal feed component.
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Investment comparison
1° - At the following link
you have access to a complete Business Plan to a capital intensive operation
to producing a great profit making product Shea Butter; originating from
a kernel which is abundant in the sahelian region from Senegal to the Horn of
Africa: (Password: africabiz1000; ID: oxfordCLUB - both are case
sensitive).
2� - Small Scale Operation: There are,
on the food-processing's equipment marketplace, equipment tailored for the small
entrepreneur interested in producing edible or industrial oil. (Input "oil
press" in your search engine and you will get links to manufacturers)
These equipment are versatile. They can be used to process quite all
the seeds, nuts and kernels listed in the following table.
Their processing capacity ranges from as low as 5 to 8 kg per hour of raw material
to 100 to 300 kg.
Let's consider an oil expeller of 40 kg processing
capacity per hour of dried sesame seeds; to produce 10 liters of pure oil
per hour; and 28 kg of Oil Meal per hour. We have the following simulated
operational data - under the following assumptions:
three expellers; 1 shift - 8 effective working hours; 26 working days per month;
12 months of operation; raw material's local purchasing price: US $ 480 per metric
ton; sesame oil's local selling price: US $ 1 per liter; Oil Meal's local selling
price: US $ 68 per metric ton:
| Items
| Amount
(US$) | |
INVESTMENT
| |
Shelters;
Storage Area; etc. |
4,000
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Three Expellers; small power generating set; miscellaneous |
30,500
| | Preliminary
expenses |
1,000
| | Starting
expenses |
2,500
| | Operational
funds (3 months) |
12,000 |
| Total
investment |
50,000 |
| TURNOVER
| | Oil
= 30x8x26x12= 74,880 liters |
74,880 |
| Oil
Meal = 84x8x26x12= 209,664 kg |
14,257 |
| Total
Turnover | 89,137 |
| OPERATING
COSTS | |
Total
Salaries |
4,800
| | Other
Operating Costs |
50,000 |
| Total
Operating Costs |
54,800 |
| GROSS
PROFIT | |
Total
Gross Profit |
34,337
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One
can see that the Return On Investment is "excellent" under the
assumptions made here
- This
small scale oil processing operation is a perfect "economic
catalyst" activity. It can be used - if well planned and implemented
- to establish a strong industrial base in any African country; and give job
to thousand of small entrepreneurs. Loan scheme to these small industrialists
will be paid back easily. Industrial oils generated by these small scale operations
are raw materials for a string of other industrial productions; such as: soap,
cosmetics, food products, detergents, paints and even substitutes to petroleum-based
lubricants and fuels. The Oil Meal will help solving the animal feed problem which
exist in most sub-Saharan African countries and boost up animal breeding: cattle,
goats and so forth.
Figures outlined in above table clearly show that
the establishment of a network of small scale oil processing units - based on
nuts, kernels and oil-containing seeds - is a perfect "Income
Building Power" operation; labor intensive and foreign currency provider
or saver. Capable of generating the "Synergetic Impact Factor"
here available
- Interested parties - private African and international investors /
companies, government
agencies,
international development
agencies - to make contact through the Free Access Support Console available at this link
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