| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Secondary pathways | BECCS |
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://frereswood.com |
| freres-engineered-wood | |
| Status | 🟢 Active (score: 70/100) |
| Company size | Large (250+) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDR Focus | side_business |
About
Freres Engineered Wood (formerly Freres Lumber Co.) is a family-owned Oregon wood products manufacturer founded in 1922 that produces plywood, veneers, lumber, and Mass Ply panels with ~450 employees. Biochar is generated as a byproduct of its Evergreen BioPower 100%-biomass-fired cogeneration boiler and was certified under the Puro.earth Biochar Methodology, with credits sold to Microsoft via ACT Commodities. The wood products business is the primary activity; CDR credits are an adjacent revenue stream.
Registry Memberships
- Puro.earth
History
- 2026-08-15 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
- 2026-08-15 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-06-15 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🔴 Likely Dead → 🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-05-01 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=side_business liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — merged 1 duplicate(s): Freres Biochar
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🟡 Moderate
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — url added from cdr.fyi supplier page: https://frereswood.com/ (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — discovered via: cdrfyi (source)
- **** — merged duplicate: Freres Biochar (slug=freres-biochar)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot, liveliness
- 2026-04-19 — liveliness: 🟢 Active → 🔴 Likely Dead (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier 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.