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Umbaji in Kenya

Machines, materials and printed parts from our Nairobi workshop: priced in shillings, paid by M-Pesa, delivered the same day in Nairobi and in 2 to 4 days upcountry.

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Workshop
Nairobi
Workshop, same-day and next-day courier
Prices
In KES
Quoted, charged and invoiced in one currency
Fastest delivery
Nairobi same-day
Courier within the city, ordered before noon
Pay by
M-Pesa
and 3 other ways

Delivery

How it reaches you

  • 01Nairobi same-dayCourier within the city, ordered before noon
  • 02Nairobi next-dayStandard metro delivery
  • 03UpcountryCourier to major towns, 2 to 4 days
  • 04Workshop pickupBy arrangement

Printed parts are made in Nairobi, so print turnaround is quoted in Kenyan working days, not an import’s weeks. Machines are delivered, commissioned on site and handed over to whoever will run them.

Where we deliver from

  • Nairobi · Workshop, same-day and next-day courier
  • Mombasa · Coast corridor, 2 to 4 days
  • Kisumu · Western corridor, 2 to 4 days
  • Nakuru · Rift corridor, 2 to 4 days
  • Eldoret · North Rift corridor, 2 to 4 days

Paying

Four ways to pay

  • M-PesaMost usedSTK Push: the prompt is raised on the customer’s phone and confirmed in place, rather than sending them away to type a paybill number and reference by hand
  • Airtel MoneyThe same flow, no separate page
  • CardsLocal and international Visa and Mastercard, settling to a Kenyan account
  • Bank transferFor institutional orders too large to sit comfortably on a card
‹Checkout
Parametric vase set×2 · Ships from Nairobi12,400
Recycled PETG, 1 kgDelivered price4,900
M-Pesa0712 ••• 678
TotalKES 17,300
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For businesses

Invoices your finance team can use

Umbaji AfricaTax invoiceINV-KE-0001842
KRA PINP051234567X
Organisation nameYour organisation Ltd
Parametric vase set ×2KES 12,400
Recycled PETG, 1 kgKES 4,900
eTIMS-ready numberingKES 17,300
  • KRA PIN: Captured on business orders so invoices are usable for input tax
  • Organisation name: Held on the order record alongside the PIN
  • eTIMS-ready numbering: Invoice numbers are issued in the sequence eTIMS expects
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Why Kenya, and why now

Kenya does not need 3D printing explained to it. Nairobi already runs a dense layer of fabricators, machine shops and design studios, and the constraint has never been appetite: it is that the machines, the materials and the people who can run them arrive separately, from different importers, on different timelines, with nobody accountable for the gap between them.

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That gap is why Umbaji works in Kenya rather than shipping to it. A printer bought abroad lands with a 12 week lead time, a warranty that means nothing locally, and a spool of filament that has crossed the equator twice. When it stops working, the person who sold it is in another timezone and the person who has to fix it has never seen one.

Umbaji sells the machine, commissions it on site, trains the operator, and keeps supplying the consumables. Prices are quoted in shillings because a quote that arrives in dollars is a quote somebody has to do arithmetic on before they can take it to a finance committee. Delivery runs on Nairobi and upcountry distances, by riders and couriers who cover them every day.

12 wk
typical import lead time this replaces
Umbaji estimate, based on customer-reported waits for directly imported machines
Same day
Nairobi delivery, ordered before noon
Umbaji delivery options, Nairobi
4 ways
to pay, led by M-Pesa on your phone
Umbaji checkout, through Paystack
Buying from somewhere else? Umbaji in the United States, in USDFrom the Clarksburg workshop · Umbaji by KWSee the US