Biomass fuel · Made in Nairobi since 2016
Fuel that doesn't cost a forest.
We press sawdust and sugarcane bagasse into briquettes and pellets at our plant in Nairobi's Industrial Area: dense, dry fuel for factory boilers, school kitchens and home stoves, at a lower cost than firewood.
What we make
Three fuels and a stove
Every batch is dried below 10% moisture and checked for calorific value and ash before it is bagged.
Industrial fuel
Briquettes
Sawdust and bagasse, pressed dense. Steady heat for manual-feed boilers and institutional stoves.
Clean cooking
Pellets
6 mm and 8 mm biomass pellets in 50 kg bags, for gasifier stoves and pellet boilers.
For the home
Iko Jiko
A forced-air gasifier stove that burns pellets with a clean flame. Battery or solar fan.
Machines
RUF machines
Sales, maintenance, spare parts and repairs for RUF briquetting presses.
Who burns IkoBriq
From factory boilers to the family jiko
Briquettes replace firewood in boilers and big kitchens; pellets and the Iko Jiko bring clean cooking home.
Industry
Our briquettes are made for manual-feed boilers: a denser, drier and steadier fuel than the firewood they replace.
- Delivered by the tonne
- Steady, predictable heat
- Little ash to clear
Schools and institutions
Institutional cookstoves and school boilers burn briquettes cleaner than firewood, with less smoke in the kitchen.
- Sawdust or bagasse briquettes
- Regular delivery schedules
- Dry and ready to burn
Homes
The Iko Jiko gasifier stove and 50 kg bags of pellets: a clean flame for everyday cooking, without charcoal.
- Stove from KSh 15,499.00 - Unit
- Pellets by the 50 kg bag
- Heater, grill and solar charger
How it is made
From waste to fuel in four steps
- 01 · Source
Collect the residue
Sawdust from sawmills and furniture makers, bagasse from sugar processing: by-products that would otherwise be dumped or burnt.
- 02 · Press
Dry and compress
The material is dried and pressed into blocks, cylinders and pellets on our RUF briquetting machine and pellet lines.
- 03 · Test
Check every batch
Moisture content, calorific value and ash are tested before anything is packed.
- 04 · Deliver
To your site
By the tonne to factories and institutions, by the bag to homes, in Nairobi and beyond.
Kuguru Loop Road · Industrial Area
Our story
It started with a woodpile
In January 2016 our founder, Chirag Amin, then ten years into the energy business, walked into a Nairobi factory and saw its yard stacked with freshly cut firewood.
By December that year IkoBriq was pressing 300 tonnes of briquettes a month from sawdust and bagasse. The plant now runs at 1,000 tonnes a month, with an expansion to 1,800 under way.
Trees: estimate, at about five fully grown trees per tonne of briquettes.
About IkoBriq
RUF briquetting machines
The presses we run, we also service
We sell RUF briquetting machines and keep them running: maintenance plans, spare parts and repairs for every RUF model, from the team that runs the same presses every day.
- Machine sales, installation and operator training
- Scheduled maintenance and hydraulic servicing
- Genuine and OEM-equivalent spare parts
- Urgent repairs, on site
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How much fuel do you burn a month?
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