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.
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 to be processed in the large offshore refineries there, 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 three years to the present day.
The Biofuel Partnership, together with its global distribution partners, is ready to launch the first manufactured BioCubes to the world early in 2010.
Extensive factory testing has been conducted and the end of 2009 will herald completion of exhaustive field trials as the company moves to full commercialisation.
Orders are now being taken for initial production manufactured units scheduled for delivery in early 2010.