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Komaza works to unlock the potential of small-scale farmers to solve Africa's wood supply crisis. Collectively, small farmers possess limitless land and labor resources to plant billions of trees. Komaza provides farmers with support across the forestry value chain, from seedlings to sawmills. With a dramatically lower-cost and more-scalable forestry model, ...
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The primary focus of this department for the next 12-18 months will be evaluating several different wood processing/product opportunities to inform our longer-term strategy. R&D will focus both on common solutions (e.g. CCA treatment; veneer & plywood; small sawmills) and innovative “moon shot” opportunities (e.g. low-cost beds, prefab building materials, etc.). In the near-term, this role primarily boils down to designing and delivering on an iterative lean startup methodology to test hypotheses about different potential products, required processing technologies, and market demand. Your core feedstock are small-diameter trees (3-6” diameter) from early-stage “thinning” operations -- profitable utilization of small, young trees is Africa’s primary forestry challenge, and we seek to lead the industry with innovative solutions. You’ll need to source insights and inspiration from Google, third-party experts, and site-visits to other wood processing operations in Kenya, Africa, and potentially globally. The fundamental goal is to identify which wood products and processing technologies Komaza should focus on for the next 5-7 years. Once a compelling case has been made, the focus of this role will shift into scaling up and optimizing processing operations to maximize quality while minimizing production costs.
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