| Pathway | Biochar |
|---|---|
| Secondary pathways | BECCS |
| Country | Germany |
| Website | https://www.salzwerke.de/ |
| suedwestdeutsche-salzwerke-ag | |
| 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
Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG is a Heilbronn-based German salt producer (~1,000 employees, majority-owned by the City of Heilbronn and the State of Baden-Württemberg) operating in salt mining, underground waste disposal, logistics and tourism. As part of its 2045 climate-neutrality strategy, it commissioned a SYNCRAFT wood-gasification “reverse power plant” at Heilbronn in December 2023 that generates electricity/heat and produces ~2.6 t/day of biochar from regional wood chips as a byproduct, marketed as garden substrate.
History
- 2026-09-15 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=side_business liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=Biochar focus=buyer_excluded 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.