No Waste for Tanzanian Creative Engineers

Raymond Tenga of Temso Engineering is both entrepreneur and engineer. He aims to support Tanzania through his brick manufacturing business.

Temso Engineering manufactures recycled and dicarded material in Tanzania. Raymond Tenga doesn’t believe in wasting anything. As the owner and managing director of Temso Engineering in Tanzania, Raymond realised the great potential that can be found in seemingly “useless” scrap metals. He decided to start his own engineering company in order to exploit this potential. Temso Engineering is now established in the industry; the company absorbs disregarded components and angles them into practical designs of high regard.

Raymond Tenga: Owner of Temso Engineering

In order to get his company off the ground, Raymond approached GroFin, an investment organisation who provide finance to small and medium enterprises facing resistance obtaining capital from traditional sources of funding.

GroFin recognised the asset in the ability to use locally available raw, sometimes even recycled metal materials to construct relatively inexpensive equipment affordable to gardeners and commercial farmers alike. Raymond’s vision to capitalise on the rural resources abundant in Tanzania in order to transform by-products into end-products, added value to his business plan and quality to local lifestyles.Thus GroFin eagerly provided Raymond with the money he needed to obtain machinery necessary in the achievement of this goal. Raymond, armed with an engineering background, developed an eye for seeing new possibilities with all manner of old materials.

Indeed, even some of the machinery in his warehouse was conceptualised and constructed by Raymond personally from old car parts and cut-offs. A considerable portion of his company’s profits come from the compilation of wheelbarrows. Temso wisely uses every piece of unassigned metal in this assembly to create a variety of other useful products for sale, such as washers for taps of various sizes. Every opportunity is utilised and each leftover is accounted for. While Temso Engineering started as a warehouse used for the storing of construction parts, recently the firm moved towards the manufacture of its own materials.

Buying a plot just outside Dar es Salaam, Raymond is now moulding his own bricks. These building blocks generate a significant profit for the entrepreneur while make the primary need for housing more attainable to local families. Again, all the machinery used in the creation of these bricks was designed and built by Raymond himself. Cast from simply sand and a small amount of cement, Raymond’s bricks are cheaper than standard bricks, making them tangible to a greater scope of Tanzanians. In his pursuit of seeing that all Tanzanians have a solid home raised with quality materials produced by Temso Engineering, Raymond undertakes in the technical training of young employees. Raymond’s dream is to develop and expand his company while creating employment so that his country as a whole will benefit.

Raymond Tenga: Owner of Temso Engineering