Coffee growers working on a remote Costa Rican co-operative are to benefit from a £100,000 machine.
Laser engineering and design firm Malton Laser teamed up with fellow North Yorkshire firm Bioflame, of Pickering, to develop the burner.
The equipment can burn waste coffee bean husks for heat which can then be used to dry the beans for production. It will be used by farmers on the Llano Bonito co-operative.
Malton Laser Ltd, which employs 24 staff at its headquarters on the Pyramid Industrial Estate in Malton, produced the £20,000 steel framework and components of the giant waste-burner.
It is the largest burner in Bioflame's range of environmentally-sound waste burning and gasifying equipment built for use in Central and South America and other international locations.
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