In Canada, Airex Energy, Groupe Rémabec and SUEZ join forces to create Canada’s first industrial biochar production plant in Port-Cartier, Québec. The first phase of the plant will be finalized in 2024, with an initial production capacity of 10,000 metric tons per year. By 2026, annual production capacity will triple, making it the largest biochar plant in North America and one of the world’s most important. This is the first project resulting from the partnership between SUEZ and Airex Energy which aims to produce 350,000 tons of biochar by 2035.
The facility, owned by CARBONITY, a joint-venture equally owned by the three partners, will employ 75 people locally. It will produce a carbon-rich biochar with high environmental qualities from the residual biomass of Groupe Rémabec’s operations. Biochar is a material with highly promising environmental benefits, identified by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as one of five negative-emission solutions to urb global warming and help achieve the carbon-neutral targets set by the Paris agreements.