Our Story
At Standard Biocarbon, we are motivated by the urgent need to remove atmospheric carbon that is principally responsible for climate change. Biochar is not a new solution to reduce to address climate change. Our approach, however is.
Watch our short story below, and join us in imagining a new, more sustainable future.
Our technology platform, combined with our location in Maine's northern forest, allows us to produce, scale, capture and sink tons and tons of carbon for millennia. Biochar will remain stable in the environment for thousands of years, trapping carbon molecules that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere, warming the planet and leading to a warming planet.
Standard Biocarbon Introduction
Why Maine?
Standard Biocarbon is co-locating with one of the premier dimensional lumber producers in the state of Maine, Pleasant River Lumber Company. Pleasant River Lumber is a family owned and operated business employing over 300 people across their 5 lumber manufacturing facilities, log purchasing yards, saw shops, and a trucking company. Pleasant River specialises in spruce, fir, and eastern white pine dimensional boards.
We are strategically located with the Pleasant River Lumber Company to act as an onsite customer for their residual wood products, such as wood chips and pins & fines. The forest product industry as a whole is in need of a market for mill residuals, as there are approximately 1.6 million TPY of wood residuals produced in the State of Maine. Maine has lost markets for over four million tons of low-grade wood in the past decade. Standard Biocarbon will expand and diversify markets for sawmill residuals by producing high quality biochar. Heat generated in the pyrolysis process will be sold back to the mill for use in their drying kilns.
This is what motivates us. Join us in our goal to help solve the climate crisis.