Investor-led BSF plant in Paraná

A black soldier fly plant run as a waste business: suppliers pay a gate fee to send their food waste, and the larvae, meal, oil and frass go to named buyers. Three candidate sites. Move any slider and every figure updates. Gold dots mark figures still to be confirmed.

Monthly flow at full capacity

Lead investor's dollars by year

US$ thousands, plant at book value in year 10. Bars: yearly cash. Line: cumulative.

A month at full capacity

R$ thousands per month, year-1 prices.

Plant cash and cash to shareholders

R$ millions. Plant cash before financing, and what is left for shareholders after the BNDES loan is served.

Lead investor

All figures in US$, at the exchange-rate path set under Currency. He shares cash with any other investors in proportion to their dollars, after Karmanutra's carried interest if any.

What it would take

How much more every supplier would have to pay per tonne, at the current settings, for his US$ return at book value to reach his target.

Capital protection options compared

Same plant and funding; only the protection changes. Under the priority dividend he is paid first each year, up to his target plus any shortfall carried forward; under the buyback the company or the other shareholders buy his shares back for a fixed dollar amount. Both cost the others what they give him.

Dividend yield in US$ by year

Yearly dividend as a % of his dollars invested (operating cash only, excluding the year-10 sale value). Dashed line: his target, from the target year.

His cash flows

US$ thousands.

The three sites side by side

Each option with its own suppliers, gate fees, distances, climate and land cost; every other setting as currently chosen. Click a site's name to switch to it.

Lead investor IRR by site

US$, book value and running business.

Waste suppliers

Gate fee income by supplier

R$ thousands per month at full capacity: gate fee less what we spend collecting it.

Where the output goes

How sales are decided
    Buyer ABuyer BBulk outlet (takes the rest)

    Sales funnel

    Per month at full capacity, year-1 prices. Net = price less freight to that buyer.

    Capex

    R$ thousands, year 0. Rearing, buildings and digester sized on contracted tonnes.

    Operating costs

    R$ per month at full capacity, year-1 prices.

    Staffing

    At full capacity. Operator numbers follow the larvae-line tonnage and the automation level.

    Electricity

    MWh per month at full capacity.

    Digester

    Takes the waste larvae cannot (meat, mixed food) for a gate fee; its heat replaces heat pumps and its power covers the plant first.

    Plant P&L and cash flow

    R$ thousands, nominal, before financing.

    BNDES loan and cash to shareholders

    R$ thousands. SAC repayments after the grace period; DSCR = (EBITDA − tax) ÷ debt service.

    Debt service coverage by year

    Dashed line: bank minimum.

    Carbon saving and who claims it

    Only one party can claim the same tonnes: the plant, by selling credits, or the waste suppliers, in their own reporting. Letting suppliers claim it helps win gate fees. The emission factors are estimates until there is a life-cycle study for this plant.

    Carbon at full capacity

    t CO2e per year. Green: avoided. Red: emitted.

    Impact at full capacity

    Sources

    The sources behind the inputs, grouped as on the All inputs tab. Each input's note gives the reasoning.

    All inputs

    Changed inputs are outlined in gold. Copy them to paste into the Excel model (Inputs and Site options sheets).