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Collect the shells
Discarded coconut shells become our starting point.
What is BriqUp?
BriqUp is a youth-led startup in Bangladesh transforming discarded coconut shells into practical fuel briquettes. We connect two everyday challenges: coconut waste and businesses’ reliance on conventional coal.
Our goal is simple. Give an underused resource a purpose, and give restaurants, hotels and commercial kitchens another choice.
Small in form
Full of potential
Compressed coconut-shell fuel for suitable cooking and heating applications. Built around a practical idea: make better use of what we already have.
Longer-lasting heat
Designed to support commercial cooking.
Reduced smoke
A cleaner-burning alternative to conventional solid fuels.
A resource, reused
Discarded coconut shells become useful fuel.
From discarded shell
to a working fuel
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Carbonize & prepare
The shells are processed into carbonized material.
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Form & dry
Prepared material is compressed into briquettes and dried.
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Ready for your kitchen
Finished briquettes are prepared for commercial customers.
Less waste
More possibility
Our approach starts with a resource that is often discarded. Repurposing coconut shells creates commercial value and helps businesses explore alternatives to conventional coal.
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Waste into value
Put discarded coconut shells to work.
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Local resources
Create useful products from locally available materials.
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Responsible progress
Improve our product through testing and customer feedback.
A little change
A growing impact
Explore the estimated trees preserved as you choose coconut-shell briquettes.
18 trees per tonne of briquettes.
Briquettes250kg
Estimated trees preserved4trees
250 kg10,000 kg
Our goals
A shared future
Our work aligns with these United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Affordable and Clean Energy
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Responsible Consumption and Production
Climate Action
Life on Land
Growing through connection
Part of the Orange Corners Incubation Program.
Be our peer
to be a pioneer
Looking for fuel for your business, or a way to work together? Tell us what you have in mind.
briqup.bd@gmail.com