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Enemyofdarkness:Don't date your sales girl. That can be considered as sexual abuse. Business and pleasure does not go nicely together. If you want to marry her, then simply go and meet her people and pay her bride price. |
Atlanticfire:It is almost impossible to prevent contamination of processed food by mold spores. Mold spores germinate on food when the right conditions exist and cause spoilage of such food. |
Atlanticfire:Like I said molds are everywhere |
Liftitupo:Be fooling yourself online, you think everyone is a church rat like you. You think I can not get you because this is a faceless forum. You are making a big mistake. |
Liftitupo:You feel that you can insult anyone on Nairaland, whether such a person is superior to you or a moderator does not matter to you. Just the same way of reasoning pistotita had. Your reward will come sooner than later. |
okoroemeka:We should all learn from what has happened here. Falsely accusing people and not being open to difference of opinion hurts on the long run. |
FarmTech:Do not bother asking him for any proof of his allegations. He is a proxy moniker for pistotita and he simply accuses anyone that disagree with him of being a scammer or as a supporter of scammers. He does not have any evidence of his allegations and he can not provide any evidence of his allegations. If you ask him for evidence of his allegations, he can not provide any evidence and will just be going round in circles without providing the evidence you asked for. He accused me on different threads that I am a scammer without a single evidence. He has also accused you of supporting scammers without any evidence, all he does is accuse anyone who does not support his writing as being scammers or supporters of scammers. His time will come. We can not allow people to make false allegations against people on Nairaland just because they believe they can get away with it. False accusations should come with appropriate punishment once the accuser can not substantiate his allegations and is proven to be a false accuser. |
Wow They should quickly remove the fire in my name and connect it to the Atlantic |
That being said, here are some ground rules. My posts here are to share some of my experience in setting up the business and to document some of the things we did. I am not a consultant, if anyone come in my name to solicit for consultancy job, chase such a person away. I don't have enough time for myself, so I don't have time to do consultancy for anyone. 2. I don't partner with any Nigerian. If anyone come in my name for partnership, chase such a person away. I only partner with members of my immediate family. Nigerians do not generally make good business partners in most cases. If you partner with nigerians then you run these additional risks. if the business fails, he will accuse you of fraud irrespective of the cause of the business failure, if the business is successful, he will be looking for ways to eliminate you and keep 100% of the business to himself. So whether the business is successful or not, you are screwed. 3. I don't accept money from any Nigerian for business purposes. If anyone come in my name asking for any investment or payment, chase such a person away. Capital cost in Nigeria is too high to want to get capital from Nigeria and from Nigerians. There are many countries where you can get capital at less than 6% interest rate, why get capital at 20% interest rate from Nigerians. Also if you collect money from Nigerians and the business fails, then your life is at risk. They will come after your life. Do business with your savings. Start small and grow. If you must take money, take it as a business loan. If you default in paying back the loan for any reason, meet the lender and reschedule the payment term, do not go into any partnership because you are looking for investment money. These advice is for those who value their peace of mind. |
Just ignore the e-rat above. He is frustrated that I joined in chasing is other lying moniker out of Nairaland. I have no regrets helping to chase the mad moniker out of Nairaland. We all know what happens to rats, they always get crushed anytime we choose to do something about them. We can give them poisoned bait, we can set traps for them, we can chase them round the house with brooms and flog them to death or we can set glue on their paths to trap them. We can also ignore them if we choose to tolerate their nuisance. We can treat e-rats the same way. They can eat poisoned bait joyously without knowing. |
Molds and more molds. Molds are a nightmare when you are producing baked products. They can cause massive spoilage and are more difficult to control than bacteria. Mold spores are everywhere. So how do you ensure that products are not spoilt by molds. Remember, preservatives are out of the question since we want a product without artificial preservatives. |
Smoked products causes cancer if not well prepared. Since the products are meant for export, we needed to ensure that the product does not contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that causes cancer in smoked products. We found a way to do that and got the HACCP Plan approved. This took a long time to achieve. How we got the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons within EU tolerance limits is a trade secret so I will not be sharing it. |
Getting the drying parameters was critical. We need to ensure that the drying rate is fast enough, the temperature also has to be right to ensure we get the right colour. Below is the parameters that worked for us.
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After the installation, we had to start trying to get the right process conditions required to get the right product quality. Installation was a bit of a nightmare in communication. The Chinese guys doing the installation did not come with the translator we agreed on and they don't understand English while we don't understand mandarin. We resorted to sign language at first, then we discovered that weechat has automatic translator. So we stand side by side and send weechat messages to ourselves as a means of communicating. That really helped. |
The steam generator
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For heating the oven we had several options to look at. We could heat directly by cooking gas, by diesel or by electricity. We also looked at indirect heating using steam. Cooking gas and electricity turned out to be too expensive. Direct heating with gas or diesel brought up the issue of the product contamination. At the end of the day we agreed on indirect heating using steam. So we had to get a steam generator that is heated by diesel. |
One change that is making life easier for use now during operation is the decision to ensure that the trays holding the fishes during drying have non stick coatings. It is really helpful, removing the fishes from the trays at the end of each drying cycle is so easy as the fishes does not stick to the trays. |
Some things to note are. The oven is chinese made. We compared price from different suppliers from different countries. It terms of quality, the oven from Sweden was the best we saw, but it cost about 4 times the cost of the Chinese oven. To get a compromise between cost and quality we simply agreed with the Chinese that the automation system must be European made. So things like motors and fans are Chinese made but the electronics components are European made. |
Another picture
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Sample picture of product in process
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It been a busy time. Will post some pictures of what we have been able to come up with. Hope it encourages people to start some form of manufacturing activities. |
Liftitupo:At the appropriate time you will get what you deserve. Just sit back and watch. I will use you to teach people how not to engage in character assassination on Nairaland. |
Liftitupo:Your IQ is too low for me to bother myself with you. You are just a junior office assistant, why should I engage with you? There is no benefit to me, so run along. You can not even write a paragraph without quoting the dead moniker of the Google consultant and you want me to engage with you. The mods and seun can see my IP address and they can tell if I am using multiple monikers. Also they see your IP address and the right injunction can force them to release your IP address, so don't think that you are truly anonymous on Nairaland. You can be traced. So kid, run along go and do your junior office assistant job. Tell your boss to tell his friend that I refused to engage you in meaningless discussions. |
Liftitupo:Don't make something with your life, be stalking me and discussing me in your dreams. How many post does Dangote have on Nairaland, be checking my posts. You think that I am jobless like your Google consultant that post 30 long epistles per day as a means of relieving his ailment. You expect me to post my research for you to copy, why not ask Dangote to post the feasibility report of his tomato or cement factory on Nairaland for you to copy? You are so dense that you fail to realise that your Google consultant only post his Google search results here as a bait to draw you and collect your tiny money as consultancy fee and investment fund. How do you really think he gets money to feed during all those months he was on Nairaland 24/7? You stupidly went to join a WhatsApp group with the Google consultant and he told you that my moniker has been banned and you believed him and came here to run your mouth. You whose intelligence quotient is in single digits, you want to join issues with someone far above your grade, I pity you. |
Liftitupo:Really? Please tell me what action was taken against my moniker. |
themonk:Is it stolen iPhone? What is the cost |
seglabsy:Is diatomaceous earth mined in Nigeria? |
What is the minimum quantity of methanol that you can sell to me? What is the cost of Formaldehyde |
You are posting pictures from a Chinese firm which might not even know you exist.