Reduce your emissions,
enhance your product.
With biochar from Novocarbo.
Reduce your emissions,
enhance your product.
With biochar from Novocarbo.
Biochar has the power to transform the economy by making meaningful use of carbon for resilient ecosystems and fossil-reduced products.
Our high-quality biochar is your booster for more sustainable products, richer soils, and healthier animals.
Why should biochar be your first choice?
Sustainable carbon alternative
Lower environmental footprint
Resilient products
Why? Because our biochar is CO2-neutral.
Why? Because our biochar is CO2-neutral.
Discover how biochar transforms the world around us
Better water management
Higher water storage capacity
Greener asphalt
R&D for biochar applications such as for polymers, silver in PV plants, and pigments
More soil fertility and biodiversity
More sustainable concrete through reduction of cement
More plant resilience
Less nutrient loss
Better water filtration and protection
Better animal digestion and hygiene
Removing 2.9 tn of CO2 through 1 tn of biochar
Higher yield
Better water management
Higher water storage capacity
Greener asphalt
R&D for biochar as a substitute of polymers and silver (in PV plants) as well as for colorant in pigments
More soil fertility and biodiversity
More sustainable concrete through reduction of cement
More plant resilience
Less nutrient loss
Better water filtration and protection
Better animal digestion and hygiene
Removing 2.9 tn of CO2 through 1 tn of biochar
Higher yield
What are you interested in?
Soil and surface treatment
Improving health of animals
Sustainable building materials
Carbon Removal Credits
Renewable Heat
Find out more about our biochar projects
Enabling sponge city concepts in Lund, Sweden
The Swedish construction company Skanska has long since made biochar part of its sustainability strategy and a vital material for fostering sustainable projects with a reduced footprint. An example is the 'Nobelparken' in the Swedish city of Lund, which acts as a peaceful green oasis next to the bustling municipality. For this project, biochar was applied as a substrate and mixed with compost. The mixture was used throughout the park and has since contributed to preserving 236 different plant species spread over 3.8 hectares.
Replacing cement with biochar at the Carbon Removal Park Baltic Sea, Germany
For the construction of our largest carbon removal park to date, we produced concrete blocks that consist of 1/3 biochar by volume. This application can replace cement and thus drastically reduce the CO2 footprint of the final product while improving product features.
Water filtration at Plaine de Plainpalais in Geneva, Switzerland
In 2018, Geneva used biochar-enriched compost to replant trees at the iconic Plaine de Plainpalais. The main goal of the sponge city project was to safeguard the water quality of Lake Geneva. Thanks to its porous surface, biochar can effectively filter pollutants in stormwater runoff while retaining water and nutrients for plants.
Why is our biochar carbon-neutral?
We process organic residues into biochar, thus preventing carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere as CO₂. All resulting emissions for biochar production are netted with the stored carbon, making biochar a genuinely zero-footprint material.
Dive deeper into our research and development
To drive product innovation, we're at the forefront of a lot of the research applications for biochar. Together with universities and renowned institutes we work on transforming the economy.
Our goal is to give industries the tools they need to meet their business and sustainability goals.
Replacing silver in solar plants with biochar
'Silver Lining' is a collaboration project with the Fraunhofer Institute für Solare Energiesyteme ISE, Meyer Burger, and OTH Oberflächentechnik Hagen GmbH & Co. KG. At the center of the project is how biochar can serve as a conductive filler in printing pastes for metalization. Our combined scientific research aims to achieve the electrical conductivity of biochar particles needed to ensure optimal solar panel functionality. The primary objective is to significantly reduce the amount of silver in the conductor paths.
Biochar-based substrates for better water filtration
In a collaborative research project with HafenCity University in Hamburg, we examined the effects of co-composted biochar on stormwater management systems. Stormwater runoff in cities spews various pollutants into aquatic systems. The research team tested to what extent co-composted biochar in substrates can remove selected trace organic contaminants in blue-green infrastructures.
The results showed: the higher the concentration of biochar in substrates, the lower the contamination.
Conductive thermoplastic with 40 % less fossil polymere
We developed this project in cooperation with the IfBB (Institue für Biokunststoffe und Bioverbundwerkstoffe) and the University of Hanover. The electrically conductive thermoplastic granulation based on dust-reduced biochar makes it possible for us to replace
40 % of the polymer in the transport box.
