Established in 2016, Sky Fat Ltd specializes in processing hides and skin.
This company has benefited from three years of improvement on Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP) with Uganda Cleaner Production Centre (UCPC), which formed the basis of being incorporated in the Industrial Symbiosis (IS) project. The company has had a big headache with waste, as 40% of skins and hides received result to waste either from splits or from off cuts. The disposal was a problem with the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). In addition, the waste was very expensive since it was purchased as part of production.
Before the SAG intervention, the company used landfills for waste disposal; since the IS training, they are now producing dog chew for export from the off- cuts (before processing the hides).
In addition, splits are now sold to South Africa to a gelatin processing company with 1 ton of skins and hide bringing in USD 200 in revenue. The company gets between 80 - 220 tons of splits and off cuts depending on orders. This is not only new revenue stream for the company but also saves on the challenges of disposal with NEMA and the local community. The company also discovered that the bulls’ parts are thrown as waste in this region. This is now collected, cleaned and dried and exported to China for ‘soup number 5’ – an exceptional soup in some parts of the world including Philippines and China.
