Bio Terrava Technologies Inc., Stittsville, Ontario
Bio Terrava is developing its first biocarbon and biochar facility in Southern Ontario. Construction and orchard wood that is landfilled or burned today becomes low-ash biocarbon for electric arc furnaces and silicon smelters, plus wood vinegar, process energy and durable carbon removal.
Ontario steelmaking is switching furnaces, carbon pricing keeps rising, and there is very little domestic biocarbon to buy.
Algoma Steel began decommissioning its blast furnace in January 2026 and expects a second EAF online in the second half of 2026, completing its move to electric steelmaking. EAF mills need charge and injection carbon, which today is mostly fossil coke and anthracite.
The federal benchmark for large emitters is $95 per tonne in 2026, rising to $115 in 2030 and $130 in 2035 under the trajectory published in May 2026. Biogenic carbon lowers a mill’s priced emissions.
Domestic production of metallurgical-grade biocarbon is small next to the carbon demand of North American EAF and silicon producers. A plant close to Ontario mills avoids long-haul freight on a low-density product.
Slow pyrolysis splits wood into a solid, a liquid and a gas. Each has a buyer, so no single market carries the plant.
Primary product
Low-ash, low-sulphur charge and injection carbon for electric arc furnaces. Silicon and ferrosilicon smelters already buy wood charcoal, which gives the plant revenue while steel-mill trials run.
Second revenue line
Biochar that is stored durably can earn certified carbon removal credits on registries such as Puro.earth. Credits are a second revenue line on the same tonne.
Co-product
The condensed pyrolysis liquid is sold to agriculture as a biostimulant. It needs little refining.
Lowers operating cost
Non-condensable gas fires the retorts and dryers, so the plant runs largely on its own energy, with surplus power for export where tariffs allow.
Bio Terrava works as an engineering consultancy through each step and takes on EPC delivery of the commercial plant only after the pilot has validated the process.
Audit the feedstock and its contaminants, confirm the buyer specification, and screen sites for air approvals, logistics and power. This is engineering consultancy work, stamped by a licensed professional engineer.
Evidence produced: Feedstock audit, offtake spec, site shortlist
Pyrolyse the real Ontario feedstock in the lab, with independent proximate, ultimate and ash-fusion assays, to fix process conditions that meet the buyer specification.
Evidence produced: Process window and assay certificates
A 2,000 t/y pilot module produces bulk sample lots for 6–12 month furnace trials with steel mills. Only after pilot validation do we move to EPC delivery of the commercial plant.
Evidence produced: Furnace-trial data and signed offtake
Then: EPC delivery of the 10,000 t/y commercial module, released against signed offtake.
Mills buy carbon against limits on fixed carbon, ash and sulphur. Clean wood residue starts low in ash and sulphur; controlled pyrolysis at 450–550 °C does the rest.
| Parameter | Bio Terrava design target | EAF charge carbon | EAF injection carbon |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fixed carbon | 82–86.5% | ≥ 80% | ≥ 85% |
| Ash | 3.5–6% | < 8% | < 5% |
| Moisture | < 3% (pelletised) | < 5% | < 2% |
| Volatile matter | 8–12% | 10–15% | < 8% |
| Sulphur / phosphorus | < 0.03% / < 0.01% | < 0.10% / < 0.05% | < 0.05% / < 0.02% |
Design targets, to be confirmed by independent assays at bench and pilot scale.
Our advanced media and co-pyrolysis technologies (THPP, Terra BPC, VASCGBC-M and BOFS valorisation) are at Technology Readiness Level 4, validated at bench scale with university partners. Four provisional patent families were filed in April 2026. We are seeking partners to build the pilot.
About 100 kilns of the 10 m³/day class designed and built with Egypt’s EEAA; 10, 34 and 45 m³ units in operation. Steel-grade output from Ontario feedstock is what the pilot will prove.
Validated at bench scale with university partners. Four provisional patent families filed April 2026. Seeking pilot partners.
TRL 4: validated in the laboratory. TRL 6: demonstrated at pilot scale. TRL 9: proven in commercial operation.
Each phase is sized to the offtake already signed. Capital estimates are management figures and will be refined in front-end engineering.
Phase 0
Pilot retort module. Sample lots, independent assays and furnace trials with two steel mills. Opens silicon-smelter sales.
Moves on when trial results meet the mill specification
Phase 1
First commercial module, fed by construction and demolition wood and orchard-removal wood. First carbon credit issuance.
Moves on with a 3-year offtake of at least 7,500 t/y
Phase 2
Duplicate retort modules on site or build a second hub near a steel cluster, with pelletising and rail loading.
Moves on with contracted offtake above 17,500 t/y
Medhat Gad, P.Eng., PMP, Founder and Principal Engineer
Thirty-six years of water, wastewater and resource-recovery engineering across Canada, the United States, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Bio Terrava delivers its engineering under a Certificate of Authorization from Professional Engineers Ontario.
Short, direct answers. The investor pack has the detail.
Both are made by heating biomass without oxygen (pyrolysis). Biocarbon is the term used when the product replaces fossil carbon in industry, such as charge or injection carbon in an electric arc furnace, so it must meet tight limits on fixed carbon, ash and sulphur. Biochar usually means the same material used in soil or other durable storage, where it can earn carbon removal credits.
The first commercial module is planned for Southern Ontario, with the Niagara region on the shortlist. The site is chosen for feedstock (construction and orchard wood that carries tipping fees today), road and rail access to Ontario steel mills, and provincial approvals. A 2,000 t/y pilot comes first.
Clean construction and demolition wood, orchard-removal wood and forestry residue. These materials are often landfilled or burned. Each feedstock is audited and tested at bench scale before it is accepted.
The slow-pyrolysis kiln design is field-proven: about 100 kilns of the 10 m³/day class were designed and built with Egypt’s Environmental Affairs Agency. Bio Terrava’s advanced media and co-pyrolysis technologies (THPP, Terra BPC, VASCGBC-M and BOFS valorisation) are at TRL 4, validated at bench scale, and we are looking for partners to build the pilot.
Every project follows three steps: evaluate the feedstock and buyer specification, run bench-scale tests, then run a pilot before any full commercial plant. Bio Terrava works as an engineering consultancy through these steps and takes on EPC delivery only after the pilot has validated the process.
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