Venue: KICC, Nairobi, Kenya
Dates: 04 - 06 July, 2019Â
Timing: 10.00 am to 06.00 pm
Business Visitors Only
Kenya has a well-developed building and construction industry with quality engineering, building and architectural design services being readily available. This industry is currently on an upward trend following re-habilitation and reconstruction of roads and bridges etc.
With increase in population, and growing demand for affordable housing, opportunities exist in the construction of residential, commercial and industrial buildings including prefabricated low-cost housing. Investors can also manufacture and supply construction materials and components for the sector.
Farming Problems Solved By Innovative Machines
In 2013, Mr Burii designed EasyDry 500, a machine that can dry 500 kilos of grains in three hours. It is a portable machine using open technology and can dry maize, wheat, rice among other grains, reducing moisture content from 20 to 13.5 percent.
Untapped Potential In Kenya's Oil and Gas Basin
The Kenyan government has uncovered that it has only explored about 12 percent – 10,000 square kilometers – of its 85,000 square kilometers of oil and gas basin found in the country.
Oil Exploration in Kenya to Generate Revenue
Stakeholders from Kenya’s oil and gas sector have sounded the alarm on the lopsided attention on proceeds from oil exploration to warn of hidden risks to the fiscal obsession. The cautionary advice comes as both government and its citizenry continue to battle the management of expectations from the impending decision on the full-scale exploration of the country’s crude deposits.
Kenya Stays Focused On Expanding Oil Chase
Kenya is shifting to conduct geological tests in search of oil and gas in the shallow offshore area of the coastal Lamu basin as the country progresses to becoming an oil state.
Kenya Named Second Biggest Market In Africa By Uber
There are currently 363,000 active Uber users in Kenya, according to the latest statistics released by the company to mark its fourth year of operation in the continent.
South Africa is told to be Uber’s biggest market in Africa with 969,000 active riders, while Kenya is second.
High Level Talks by EAC Oil and Gas Stakeholders in Kenya
Oil and Gas stakeholders from the East African Community partner states held a high-level forum to discuss oil and gas investment opportunities in the region.The forum was hosted in Nairobi – Kenya ahead of East African Petroleum and Exhibition Conference 2019 that will be held in the coastal city of Mombasa in May 2019.
Keitt Exporters To Diversify Into Oil
To help mitigate risk and ongoing trading restrictions with China and Taiwan Kenya’s Keitt Exporters is exploring potential new opportunities in added value avocado products.
According to sales and marketing manager Grace Thuita The company is looking at processes and machinery to produce avocado oil as a way of gaining further value from the fresh product.
