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Companies Offering Biochar Producing Biochar Machinery

• ABRI-TECH Inc (formerly Advanced Biorefinery Inc.), Quebec, Canada
  Sustainable bioenergy equipment for the future. Offering pyrolysis systems, biomass dryers, and research & development.

• Adam + Partner, Garmish, Germany
  Low cost retort kiln or Improved Charcoal Production System (ICPS)for developing countries.
  These kilns are available in the USA through New England Biochar

• Advanced Gasification Technology , Italy
  A.G.T. has developed a fixed-bed, down-draft, open core, compact gasifier that creates a fine-grained, highly porous pollutant-free charcoal that may significantly vary in its chemical and physical properties depending on originating material.

• Agri-Tech Producers, Columbia, South Carolina, usa
  Torrefaction systems
  Agri-Tech Producers offers commercial grade Torrefaction machines, their standard machine will produce 5 tons of torrefied wood per hour, and they are working with North Carolina State University on a pelletizing system that will make cost effective, and water repellent pellets out of standard cellulosic biomass.

• AGRI-THERM, Ltd., Canada
  Pilot plan, Mobile Pyrolysis plants, testing in 2009.

• Alterna Biocarbon, Prince George, BC, Canada
  Alterna Biocarbon manufactures and markets biocarbon, which is produced from renewable resources.

• Ambient Energy, LLC, Washington, USA
  Ambient Energy, LLC ("AE") provides comprehensive solutions for waste to energy problems for its clients. AE can assist its clients with the environmental and commercial aspects of advanced recycling technologies for most major waste streams: Bio-solids (corn, manure, oils, etc.); Used tires; Municipal Solid Waste (MSW); Biomass (agricultural field waste residue, wood waste, etc.); Post-consumer plastics. These can be converted into a number of valuable products, such as electricity, fuel, carbon, and agricultural char.

• Appropriate Rural Technology Institute ARTI, Pune, India
  Briquetted Charcoal from Sugarcane Trash: Dry leaves, left in field after harvest of sugarcane, are called trash. On an average, a hectare of sugarcane generates about 10 tonnes of trash. Because it has no value as cattle fodder, and because it also resists decomposition, the trash is burnt in situ. Pyrolysing the trash and converting it into fuel briquettes, can be a very profitable, small scale, rural business.

• Avello Bioenergy, United States http://www.avellobioenergy.com/
  Avello Bioenergy is commercializing proprietary technology in the evolving field of biomass fast pyrolysis. Avello Bioenergy brings a novel and innovative approach to pyrolysis oil fractionation to the industry. Based in central Iowa, Avello Bioenergy is positioned in the center of the fast growing Bioeconomy.

• Biocarbo, Brazil
  Located in Itabirito, Minas gerais, the company produces biochar (Biocarbo) and wood vinegar (Bipirol).

• Biochar Industries, Australia.
  Sustainable Biochar production from forestry waste. Biochar education centre Kunghur provides education for Industry, Government and young adults through biochar learning circles and a pilot commercial biochar Industry. Sustainable forest management and Forest conversions from Monoculture to Native

• biochar Products Oregon, United States
  Biochar Products is in the early stages of developing a biochar 10 Dry Ton Per Day biochar plant to be located on the old Ellingson Lumber mill site near Halfway, Oregon. The plant will be portable so it can be moved into the forest during months where fuels reduction projects are occurring. Chipped waste wood can be utilized on site and the bio-oil and charcoal hauled out of the forest as a completed product.

• Biochar Solutions (formerly Biochar Engineering), Colorado, United States
  Mobile Biochar production units that convert woody biomass to heat and char.

• Bioenergy LLC St Petersburg, Russia (In Russian)
  Bioenergy LLC developed a new technological approach for charcoal production, the "POLIKOR" family of equipment. The first "POLIKOR-3" was put into operation in December 2002 in Arkhangelsk. Five kilns of this series work now.

• Biogreen-Energy France
  Thermochemical conversion of biomass and wastes to bio-oils and biochar.
  This is licensed in the USA through B.N.W. Industries

• Biz Solutions, Utah, USA
  Pyrolizer and electricity generation, specializing in waste to energy.

• Black is Green (BiG), Australia.
  mobile or modular thermal treatment systems for processing biomass materials to charcoal and other wastes.

• Black Earth Products, Australia.
  Production, wholesale and retail of poultry litter and high carbon Biochars. Continuous flow pyrolysis technology focused on producing premium quality nutrient bonded Biochars

• Carbon Brokers International , Colorado, USA

• Carbon Char.com, USA
  Pyrolysis Process; Makers of CharGROW soil Amendment.

• Carbon Resources, California, USA
  Distributors of Activated Charcoal products.

• Diacarbon Energy Inc.
  (Formerly JF Bioenergy), Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

• Dynamotive , Vancouver, Canada
  Fast Pyrolysis.

• Eco-Carbone, France

• Ensyn Corp., Ottawa, Canada

• Eprida, Georgia, USA

• Full Circle Biochar, San Francisco, USA.

• GEK (BEK) Gasifier, All Power Labs, California, USA
  The BEK (Biochar Experimenter’s Kit) is a reconfiguration of GEK components to create a multi-mode pyrolysis machine for characterized biochar and bio-oil making. The BEK supports multiple pyrolysis process modes in direct combustion (updraft, TLUD and stratified downdraft), indirect combustion retort, and sweep gas through bed heat transfer

• Genesis Industries, California, United States
  Genesis branded pyrolyzers.

• HM3, Oregon, USA
  torrefied wood pilot plant

• ICM, Kansas, USA

• Interra Energy, California, USA

• Kansai Corporation , Japan
  Automated Rice Husk Carbonizer

• New England Biochar, Shelbourne, Vermont, USA
  Tin Man (two barrel biochar retort), Shotgun (double barrel retort) and Adam Retort (Farm scale Production Units).

• Pacific Pyrolysis Australia (formerly Best Energies)
  Has created a Slow Pyrolysis which efficiently converts approx 35% by weight of the dry feed material is converted to a high-carbon char material that is collected on the discharge of the kiln.

• Pyrolyzer LLC, Florida, USA
  Pyrolysis Gasifiers, self contained an available in four sizes.

• 3R Environmental Technologies Group, Sweden.
  Rotary pyrolysis
  The 3R zero emission pyrolysis technology provides bone-char (biochar) natural fertilizer, liquid Nitrogen fertilizer and refined bio-oil. The 3R has been developed under the the European Union FP5, FP6, FP7 and CIP-Ecoinnovation application oriented research schemes since 2002.

• re: char
  Small scale TLUD charcoal kiln.,

• TSTO (Three Seconds to Oil)

• Waste to Energy Solutions Florida and Alabama, USA

  Offering Biochar and Biochar Makers