The faraway port town of Kimbe in Papua New Guinea may be an improbable place to inspire a global business, but that's how it was with us.
Transported there on shipping business, we watched the local dock-hands toil as they loaded palm oil onto a ship bound for Singapore. The ships were taking it there to have it processed in the large off-shore refineries, then returning with the processed fuel.
"Surely there must be a better way" we pondered; "a way in which the seed can be processed locally and the value of the crop kept at home base where it's needed most?"
Fast-forward two years to the present day.
2009: The year of the BioCube
The Biofuel Partnership is about to introduce the world's first compact, fully integrated biodiesel processing unit - the BioCube.
Designed and developed in Australia, the BioCube is an affordable, efficient and transportable biodiesel processor the size of a 10ft ISO shipping container. It will process a variety of raw feedstock into international standard biodiesel, ready for direct use in diesel vehicles, agricultural machinery and generators.
With every BioCube we aim to create an environmentally friendly, sustainable enterprise for a developing community or business.
Benchmarks achieved for BioCube
3 September 2008
The Biofuel Partnership Limited has been making sound progress towards the commercialisation of the BioCube since the company was founded just over one year ago.
Working with EDAG on development
3 September 2008
The EDAG global group, an engineering and design organisation headquartered in Germany, has been playing a key role in Australia in the development of the BioCube. Internationally, EDAG, which has 5400 employees, had a sales turnover of more than 650 million Euros (A$1.13 billion) in 2007.