PyroWorks turns an invasive species problem into a carbon removal and biochar business. Three things converge in a single process: an ecological and agricultural problem solved, a climate solution delivered, and a marketable product created.
Lantana camara suppresses grazing and crop yields and is one of the most widespread invasive species in Zambia. Removal is delivered as a paid service to the landowner.
The carbon in that biomass is permanently locked into biochar through pyrolysis, generating verifiable, sellable carbon removal credits.
Biochar is sold as a soil amendment on its own commercial merits — a product with a market, not a by-product given away.
PyroWorks is deliberately scoped to removal, processing and sale. Soil treatment and biochar application sit with the landowner — a considered boundary that keeps the business focused on an industrial process it controls end to end.
Complete removal of Lantana biomass from the field, performed as a paid service to the landowner and priced by local density.
Biomass is chipped and sealed into bags at mobile field stations, ready for transport.
Sealed-bag packaging prevents Lantana seed spread during handling and transport — a biosecurity feature, not just logistics.
Bagged biomass moves from the field stations to the central plant, within a collection radius sized around the plant's capacity.
Incoming biomass is dried at the plant using recovered process heat before entering the reactor — at zero marginal energy cost.
Biomass is converted to biochar at 600–700 °C, self-sustained through recovered syngas combustion.
biomass per module, per year
of biomass input
credits per tonne of biochar
continuous, no external fuel
The technological backbone is a large-scale, modular pyrolysis plant with four reactor chambers, enabling continuous staggered-batch operation and running on its own recovered syngas. The system is supplier-specified and already proven in operation; the figures above come from its technical datasheet.
Lantana removal as a paid service to landowners. Pyrolysis into biochar and verified carbon removal credits. Technology sourced; first unit sizing complete.
Agricultural production on restored land, with crop composition chosen for the region, buying biochar from PyroWorks for its soil value only. Deferred until PyroWorks is proven at scale.
A carbon firewall applies across Real Naturation: removal credits are sold once, by PyroWorks, and never cross into another module.
