YOUNG BUSINESS PERSON
Blessed Mushamiri;
Temp Bag
Any upcoming
entrepreneur knows the
challenges that come with
a start-up. So how does
one introduce a multipurpose bag that can heat
up, cook and even keep
cool your food? Well, we
sat down with one of the
inventors of the innovative
temp-bag, Blessed
Mushamiri to explain on
why it is a good start-up
GM.: Could you please give us
a brief background about
yourself and your company.
Blessed: Our company is called
Unique Innovations Pvt Ltd ,
because it has been
incorporated according to the
laws of Zimbabwe, as a private
company. Basically there are
three principles who make up
the company mainly Blessed,
Tinashe and Mavis. Unique
Innovations are the main
manufactures and distributors
of the product called Temp Bag,
which is a thermal retention
bag, I know there is a bit of
physics and science into it. But
its basic function is to retain the
temp erature of what has been
placed in the bag. So if its hot,
it will remain hot, if it’s cold, it
remains cold. So according to
the SARS verification, if you
put something frozen it will be
frozen for three to five days and
if you put something warm, it
remains warm for up to eight
hours. The bag also functions as
a cooker; it cooks food all foods
that use the insulated cooking
feed. It uses the insulated
continued method ; and by this
method, you heat up your
container, or pot using a
different fuel source such as a
stove. So for something like
rice, you heat it up for some five
minutes, and once the pot
catches heat, you can put in
into the bag and the bag retains
the heat which finishes off the
cooking.
GM.: So why the temp bag?
Blessed:. The temp bag was
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motivated by the crisis that we see
in daily human life which include
the severe power cuts. So we
looked at environmental issues
such as pollution coming from the
dirt people throw away such as
used kaylites. We looked at health
issues such as unhealthy eating for
example, people eating fast foods.
Health hazards caused by for
example gas emissions. So when
we looked at those issues, we made
the temp bag using recycled
kaylite. We made a commitment to
the government that in the next
five years, no kaylite will be found
lying around. And with the regular
use of the temp bag it has been
proven that it can reduce gas
emissions by 60%. Because when
Use fuel in the open air, the fuels
used to cook, firewood, gas,
through combustion, emit gases
into the atmosphere . So with the
bag, it does not do the cooking so
no gases are emitted. Again it
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