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AFRITECH SOLUTION

Afritech Solution provides expertise in fuel marking technology providing governments and fuel companies with customized, fully managed programs to protect the fuel supply chain from fuel adulteration, dumping, and smuggling.

AFRITECH SOLUTION

The fuel market is a high source of tax revenue for governments.

Without formal, fast, and reliable inspection of petroleum products, rampant product malpractices have emerged that reduce tax revenue

  • Adulteration: illegal mixing of kerosene with diesel and petrol altering the product specifications resulting in loss of engine power and damage. Adulteration.
  • Smuggling: Untaxed fuel coming into the country across borders
  • Transit Dumping: duty-free products transiting for other countries diversified into the local market.

Such illicit commerce, fraud, and tax evasion activities pose a real and immediate threat to governments’ efforts to maintain and grow a prospective national economy.

Benefits

Benefits of the Fuel Marking Program

Reduction or complete elimination of product malpractices: adulteration, smuggling and dumping.

Increased government revenues as malpractices are eliminated

Fair competition among fuel companies in the country.

Increased efficiency of car engines due to quality fuel.

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Fuel Marking:

Objectives of the Program

The program provides a foundation for an effective quality monitoring system by:

  • Maintaining the quality of imported products against legal standards
  • Offering consumer quality assurance and protection for products at the final dispensing unit
  • Checking/controlling malpractices that would result in unfair competition which have a secondary effect of interfering with product quality

Our Responsibility

Reliable

Offer reliable and robust solutions tailored to the specific conditions in the field

Set up

Set up state of the art system to offer comprehensive solution to combat illegal actions and diminish fuel related income losses

Integrated marking

Advanced, sophisticated and fully integrated marking, tracing, testing, analyzing and reporting

Combat fuel fraud

Systems ability to obtain immediate, final, on site results, offers governments a tool to combat fuel fraud and revenue losses.

Our Fuel Marking System

  • Our unique proprietary markers are specifically produced for security applications
  • They are unique signatures
  • Safe
  • Stable and robust
  • Impossible to reverse engineer
  • Do not affect fuel properties
  • Step 1: Domestic fuel marked at point of taxation- customs entry points (border)
  • Marker I: for petrol and diesel
  • Marker II: for kerosene
  • Marker III: for tax exempted fuel
  • Step 2: tested at point of consumption
  • Reduced concentration- smuggling or adulteration
  • Test for kerosene marker- adulteration
  • Test for tax exempted fuel marker – dumping
  • Step 3: Law enforcement
  • Fines and penalties, sealing off facilities and /or suspension/confiscation of operating license