Our Story
At Standard Biocarbon, we are motivated by the urgent need to remove atmospheric carbon that is principally responsible for climate change.
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 in the form of carbon dioxide.
Standard Biocarbon Introduction
Why Maine?
Standard Biocarbon is co-located 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 specializes in milling small diameter spruce, fir, and eastern white pine dimensional lumber.
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 used to dry wet sawmill residuals and the pyrolysis kilns used to produce our high carbon biochar.
Strengthening the forest economy of Maine while addressing the urgent challenge of climate change is what motivates us.