Kenya Nut Company targets 10 licensed products by Q4 2024

KENYA -Nairobi-based agri-processor, Kenya Nuts Company, is anticipating to have at least ten licenced products in the market by Q4 2024.

Emma Nderuti, Processing Manager for winery and Distillery, said the statement as the company celebrates its fifth decade in the industry.

She added that the company will continue to innovate and lead the industry with the unwavering support of the shareholders.

Kenya Nuts Company, a major in macadamia and cashew nuts processing intensified its growth and entered into coffee, chocolate and cooking oil market. According to Nderuti, the first bottle of the company’s alcoholic beverage was first produced in 2007.

The agricultural business has partnered with Talus Ag, a green ammonia technology company, to install the first commercial modular green ammonia system that enables cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable fertilizer production.

Talus’s zero-carbon system produces ammonia (the building block of all mineral fertilizers) using just sun, water, and air.

Talus’s first deployment, talusOne, installed at Kenya Nut Company’s Morendat farm in Naivasha, has demonstrated the immense potential of decentralized green ammonia production in rural and supply-vulnerable communities.

Kenya Nut Company’s talusOne is powered by a 2.1MW solar farm and produces approximately one tonne of green ammonia daily.

For every tonne of green ammonia produced, Kenya Nut Company says the unit avoids up to 8 tonnes of carbon emitted during traditional ammonia production and distribution, which account for approximately 2 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.

In addition, the company is among those which have received distillery licences after the government undertook a 25-point enforcement programme for suppression of the manufacture, sale, distribution and consumption of illicit alcohol, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the country.

The measures taken included the immediate suspension of all licences, permits and authorisations for the manufacture and distillery of second-generation alcohol.

A further directive was issued that fresh vetting be undertaken within 21 days to ensure compliance of establishments with security, safety, health, labour, environmental and other standards as defined in relevant National laws.

All the 29 active manufacturers and distillers of second-generation alcohol were vetted by a multi-agency team and only two were found to be fully compliant.

The Ministry said Kenya Nut Company Limited and UDV were allowed to continue with their operations after they were found to have met all the requirements in a countrywide vetting exercise conducted between March 18 and March 21, 2024.