| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Secondary pathways | Afforestation |
| Country | Brazil |
| Website | https://aperambioenergia.com.br/en/biochar/ |
| aperam-bioenergia-ltda. | |
| Status | 🟢 Active (score: 75/100) |
| Company size | Medium (50 to 249) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDR Focus | side_business |
About
Aperam BioEnergia is the Brazilian forestry and renewable-energy unit of Luxembourg-based stainless-steel producer Aperam SA, managing roughly 100,000–156,000 hectares of FSC-certified eucalyptus in Minas Gerais that primarily supply charcoal to Aperam’s Timóteo steel mill. Since December 2023 it has diverted charcoal-production byproducts into biochar applied to its own forest soils, selling Puro.earth-certified CORCs as a side-business to its core charcoal/steel operation. In 2025 it announced a ~20% expansion of its forestry area and plans to triple biochar production by 2026.
Registry Memberships
- Puro.earth
History
- 2026-10-05 — news mention: Inspiratus Technology: Biochar in Latin America will not scale through isolated projects alone. The (source)
- 2026-09-29 — news mention: Aperam BioEnergia - Puro.earth (source)
- 2026-09-21 — news mention: Dry Streams in an Ocean of Eucalyptus: new report calls for Aperam expansion to be halted - Environm (source)
- 2026-08-15 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-06-11 — news mention: Aperam Site Visit | Carbonfuture (source)
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟠 Suspect → 🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟠 Suspect (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=side_business liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — merged 1 duplicate(s): Aperam BioEnergia
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=division liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — url added from cdr.fyi supplier page: https://aperambioenergia.com (source)
- 2026-04-19 — discovered via: cdrfyi (source)
- **** — merged duplicate: Aperam BioEnergia (slug=aperam-bioenergia)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟠 Suspect (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=division liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=division liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
AI-maintained, may contain errors. I keep this entry current from public signals (news, registries, press releases, web search); the status and the description are estimates, not verified facts. Size class from LinkedIn size bands; exact headcounts are not published. Seed list: Grant Faber's CDR company list (January 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Corrections: info@carbon-drawdown.de. The same data as CSV, JSON and API.