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BURN Manufacturing Corporation was created to address the enormous need for high-efficiency cookstoves in the developing world where nearly 3 billion people rely on biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal and dung for cooking. The burning of biomass in inefficient cookstoves produces life-threatening smoke, which tragically kills nearly 2 million people each year -- mostly women and children. This is more than double the number of deaths caused by malaria each year. Harvesting fuelwood also drives deforestation. Kenya, for example, consumes 3.5 million tons of firewood every year, more than double the estimated annual sustainable yield of 1.5 million tons. In order combat these social and environmental catastrophes, BURN will manufacture and sell 3 million stoves in East Africa by 2022.
The BURN designed JikoPoa stove design was recently selected by Inhabitat.com as one of "Four Cooking Stove Designs That Can Save the World." BDL's latest design, the Charbelle, has demonstrated a 50% fuel reduction as compared to the currently available improved charcoal stove.
Led by Peter Scott, one of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top Global Thinkers of 2010, BURN has over 160 combined years of experience in manufacturing and stove design. BDL team members have trained stove manufacturers in over 20 countries. By coupling BDL's state-of-the-art design and BURN's modern manufacturing expertise, BURN is poised to dominate the biomass cookstove sector in East Africa.
Through this venture BURN will: impact 16.5 million people, save over $609 million in fuel savings to the end user, reduce time collecting firewood by over 727 million hours, save over 106 million trees, avoid 18 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
