Clients

Business plan development and management advice

African cashew processors businesses are embedded in an emerging and vibrating sector, where businesses are challenged to design new business models to boost (parts of) their businesses.

Away4Africa offers technical expertise and business planning services. Strategy development through on basis of assessment of the current business and optimisation by business modelling. This includes the link with sourcing and marketing of the nuts.

Industrial process maintenance

African cashew processors operate in a context of fast technology development: a change towards the professionalization of (cashew) processing. Mechanisation and automation are the way to increase labour productivity and competitiveness in processing. A blend of technology from Asian origin and local supplies and capacities. The challenge is to increase adequate hardware and software, staff capacity, intelligent supply of spares and organization of maintenance.

Away4Africa offers the service to assess and improve industrial processes and energy supply. This includes, the choice and installation of processing equipment, design of maintenance protocols, trainings, automation, integration of software solutions and (re)design of parts of the process. Away4Africa develops tailor made solutions (hardware, software, organization) to improve the (preventive) maintenance.

Cashew processing by products

African cashew processors are working on CNSL extraction. The export prices have decreased such that alternatives must be searched for. African cashew processors often have the vision to use the shells in circular economy of biomass, for co-generation of thermal and electrical energy.

Away4Africa offers the service to assess the by-products problem and potential of different alternatives of by products (e.g. charcoal, pyrolyse oil) with focus on the local market. Away4Africa designs and conducts research and tests on these type of products and develops business planning, including technical and economic analysis.