B10 Char, a company founded by commodities traders, is set to open South Africa's first major biochar production facility in the first quarter of 2025. The facility will process over 22,000 tonnes of organic waste annually to produce 7,000 tonnes of biochar, aiming to become a leading producer of high-quality biochar. Biochar, a soil additive created through pyrolysis of organic waste, offers environmental benefits by sequestering carbon and improving soil quality. B10 Char plans to sell its biochar to farmers and the agricultural industry, promoting its use for sustainable agriculture.
B10 Char was founded less than a year and a half ago by two commodities traders — Tobias Munk and Philip Edmonds.
“Biochar is an ancient product whose time has come. B10 will be at the forefront of this revolution.”Biochar is produced in a similar way as regular charcoal. The latter is made by heating wood at temperatures above 400°C in an oxygen-deprived oven, a process called pyrolysis. Recent research has shown that the earliest known human inhabitants of the Amazon used “dark earths” that included biochar to boost tree, plant, and crop growth in the rainforest thousands of years ago.
“Instead of extracting carbon that was sequestered millions of years ago and burning it, thus adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, we reverse the process,” B10 said.B10 Char plans to remove 15,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in its plant’s first year of operation.
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