Description

Oplandske Bio is a Norwegian bioenergy company from the Opland and central region. They operate district, local and process heat operations based on renewable bioenergy from the region. Oplandske Bio built the first industrial-scale pyrolysis plant in Norway at Rudshøgda in the municipality of Ringsaker. The biochar manufacturing facility sells steam as a bi-product to a large meat processing facility located adjacently. The facility was purpose-built and is very modern and highly automated. The woodchips that are used as feedstock are sourced from a nearby forestry company and are PEFC certified. The transport distance to the facility is less than 2km. The production facility attained the EBC sustainable biochar certification this year. The biochar has a very high carbon content, 92%, each dry ton of biochar contains 3,36 tonnes of CO2. A lifecycle assessment (LCA) of Oplandkse Bio’s production process was carried out by Accend in September 2021. The LCA accounts for all process emissions from harvesting of the wood, chipping, transport of woodchips to the production site, and the manufacturing of the biochar on site and confirms that 3 tonnes of CO2 are stored for every 1 ton of biochar. Biochar from Oplandske is used in numerous commercial and research applications including animal litter, feed a well as urban applications such as replacing concrete.