New Dawn Engineering, as part of its R&D efforts, is developing and manufacturing multi-fuel biomass stoves for single pots and more; low emission coal stoves for low income homes, low emission paraffin stoves for local fabrication; commercial biomass stoves for kilns, dyeing and cooking; biomass gasifiers capable of making charcoal and/or burning it. Together with partner organizations New Dawn Energy Systems, Appropriate Technology Exchange Swaziland, and New Dawn Engineering C.C. of South Africa has manufactured and made available a wide range of labour-enhancing technologies through a network of dealers in the region. Cooking and heating devices are part of that vision to raise the standards of living of diverse peoples and placing in their hands high quality simple machines that are will help to generate income.
Contact Information
Swaziland - targetting the unemployed, the employed who want to 'create work at home', NGO's working in income generation and water supply including low lift irrigation; co-founder of the Renewable Energy Association of Swaziland - reaswa@swazi.net South Africa - major stove projects including work with GTZ/ProBEC and the Centrel Energy Fund, creating efficient, clean burning multi-fuel stoves of various sizes. D R Congo - income generation project based out of Lubumbashi
Our Experience And Interest In The Four PCIA Central Focus Areas
We have accumulated over 25 years experience in working with 'appropriate technology' solutions. Many technical failures are the result of cultural/social misunderstandings. We are a private organization that designs effective devices and sells them effectively because we understand the behaviour of the market.
We have conducted major and minor marketing surveys in South Africa to establish what people expect from a stove and what fuels they relate to well.
At this time there seems to be a general lack of coordination between people who make pots, stoves, houses and regulations. We are contributing to improving this by systematically researching what is available and what works well together in realistic, accessible combinations, rather than speculating how wonderfully things would work if we controlled the world. We walk the theoretical path with practical feet which involve hard decisions and a soft heart.
We have some equipment for monitoring the environmental changes produced by different stove and ventilation interventions. Our stove products are 'heavy' on providing efficient combustion to avoid the need for cumbersome ventilation devices. We have been involved in some indoor air quality monitoring projects in Swaziland to check the efficacy of interventions.
Relevant Publications or Studies
Full Employment Through Equitable Development (FEED), Pemberton-Pigott & Cook, 1995. It was a strategy written for the Swaziland Government on how to create 330,000 jobs in a country with only 1 million people, submitted privately to the Second Economic Vusela, 1995.
Our Contribution to the Partnership
* Research and design of stoves and burners * Commercialization strategies * Scaling up manufacturing from artisanal to mass production or somewhere in between * Materials selection and specification, especially metals * Appropriate tooling and design for artisanal production of otherwise difficult/impossible to make prorotypes * Training of entrepreneurs * Localisation of designs, adapting a product to locally available materials
