We turn your agricultural waste into money.

BIG (Biochar Industrial Group) is incorporated in the USA. We put our own capital and equipment into your site, financing, installing, and operating an industrial pyrolyzer at no upfront cost to you. Because we're investing rather than selling, we partner selectively.

Revenue from carbon credit sales is split: 20% to you, 60% to the financier of the machine, and 20% to BIG. If you choose to co-invest in the machine yourself, your share scales proportionally, up to 80%.

No. We finance the machine and carry the project, so we partner selectively, the way an investor backs a project. We review every processor against feedstock type, annual volume, and the carbon economics of the site.

Being selected means your feedstock cleared a real bar. We take on a limited number of partners at a time so each site gets the capital and attention it needs to perform.

It depends on your feedstock type and annual volume. See the calculator above for a live estimate — pick your feedstock and enter your tonnes per year.

For context: a processor running ~5,000 tonnes/year of cashew shells earns roughly $71,000/year at the 0% upfront tier, or $177,000/year at the 50% co-invest tier.

Continuous-feed industrial pyrolyzers operating at 450–600°C in a low-oxygen environment. Zero open flame, no smoke.

We've been running this exact system at a sister palm kernel processing facility in Nigeria since 2024 — it's proven, not prototype.

Minimum volume: 1,000 tonnes/year. Moisture thresholds vary by feedstock:

• Palm kernel shells — moisture below 15%
• Cashew nut shells — moisture below 15%
• Sawdust — moisture below 20%

If your material runs wetter than this, we can usually accommodate it with a short pre-drying step, talk to us.

You still leave with something useful. Use the calculator to see what your waste is worth, and we keep your details on file as our pipeline opens up and as we build toward aggregating smaller sites.

Know another processor with the right volume? We pay a $3,000 referral fee for introductions that turn into deployments — see how referrals work below.

We pay a flat $3,000 referral fee for every processor you introduce that turns into a live deployment. To refer someone:

• Send us their details through the contact form — include their name and how to reach them — or make a direct introduction by email.
• Tell us you referred them so we credit the introduction to you.

If more than one person helped make the same introduction, the $3,000 can be split between them — just let us know how to divide it. The fee is paid once the referred site goes live.

We use the European Biochar Certificate (EBC) and Rainbow methodology. MRV (Measurement, Reporting, Verification) involves third-party lab verification of biochar carbon content and stability.

First credit issuance typically lands ~2 months after installation goes live.

Yes. We operate Nigeria's first industrial biochar plant, continuously processing palm kernel shells since December 2024. Happy to share site references and connect you with the operating team once we're in serious conversation.

Three things:

• Your feedstock supply (1,000–5,000+ tonnes/year)
• Approximately 10m × 10m of covered space near your processing line
• Access to 3-phase power (~5–7 kW)

Permits, compliance, machine operation, and carbon credit certification — all handled by BIG.

Roughly 6 months from signed agreement to live operations, then ~2 months until the first carbon credits are issued and sold. So plan on ~8 months from handshake to first payment.