Moses Wachira

THE BIG THUNDER NUTS MINING COMPANY LIMITED

The Big Thunder Nuts Mining Company Limited, founded in 2018, reduces waste in the macadamia supply chain in Kenya through 3 main activities: the recycling of products from the processing of Macadamia into oil as a cosmetic ingredient, the recycling of biomass mainly that taken by multinationals for boiler needs and the Macadamia processing that seeks to transform 40% of the processing waste into cosmetic oils.

Major Achievements

More than 1,500 tons of nuts exported;
Set up his own macadamia processing facility at Thika, worth Euro 250,000 (capacity to process 20 food containers of macadamia annually) in 2022;
More than 70 staff members (90% of which are women);
In 2020, together with 2 local macadamia processors, Big Thunder won a World Bank/Government of Kenya GoK contract to supply 1 million seedlings to small scale farmers;
Won a grant from IKEA of USD 25,000 from the O-Farms Acceleration Program in 2022.

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