PRODUCT 01
Biochar
Screened, graded and bagged biochar from coconut shell and husk. For carbon removal offtake, soil amendment, and blending. Batch-tested, spec sheets on request.
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Carbon that stays in the soil. Income that stays in Kilifi.
Origo Industries converts coconut shell and husk — residue that is otherwise burned in the open — into certified-grade biochar at our pyrolysis facility in Kilifi, Kenya. Every tonne is weighed, batched and traceable to a named supplier.
~4,300 tCO₂e / yr
DURABLE REMOVAL AT FULL TWO-SHIFT CAPACITY
1.5 t/hr
INSTALLED FEEDSTOCK THROUGHPUT
2,000–4,000
SUPPLIER HOUSEHOLDS AT CAPACITY
100%
OF BATCHES WEIGHED, SAMPLED & RECORDED
WHY THIS FEEDSTOCK
On Kenya’s coast, carbon is burned in the open every day.
Kenya’s coconut belt produces hundreds of millions of shells and husks a year. Coconut shell is roughly 30% fixed carbon by dry weight — one of the cleanest, densest biomass feedstocks anywhere. Almost all of it is burned at the edge of the farm or left to rot.
Burned in the open, that carbon is in the atmosphere within minutes, along with smoke that settles in the lungs of whoever stands closest. Converted under controlled pyrolysis, the same shell holds its carbon for centuries — and improves soil while it does it.
The difference between those two outcomes is a plant, a price and a buyer. We have the plant. We pay the price. We’re looking for the buyers.
THE MASS BALANCE
From residue to removal, in numbers you can check.
1,000 kg
COCONUT SHELL & HUSK
AT 10% MOISTURE
AT 10% MOISTURE
270 kg
BIOCHAR, VIA CONTROLLED
PYROLYSIS
PYROLYSIS
≈ 2.5 tCO₂e
DURABLY REMOVED PER TONNE
OF BIOCHAR APPLIED TO SOIL
OF BIOCHAR APPLIED TO SOIL
At full two-shift operation the facility processes 528 tonnes of residue a month and produces roughly 143 tonnes of biochar — in the order of 356 tCO₂e of durable removal, month after month.
EVERY TONNE WEIGHED AND RECORDED AGAINST A NAMED SUPPLIER
TRACEABILITY & MRV
Records that satisfy a registry — kept from the first batch.
Carbon removal is only worth what you can prove. Our operating discipline and our evidence base are the same system:
Traceable feedstock
Every tonne received is weighed at our weighbridge and recorded against a named supplier in our register. Provenance isn’t reconstructed later — it’s captured at the gate.
Batch-level records
Every production batch is weighed, sampled and logged: feedstock in, biochar out, moisture, screening. The batch record follows the product to dispatch.
Certification pathway
We are pursuing European Biochar Certificate (EBC) accreditation, with independent laboratory testing against published specifications. Status shared openly with buyers on request.
Digital MRV ready
Production, provenance and batch data are structured for digital monitoring, reporting and verification from day one — built to plug into registry and dMRV platforms.
IMPACT, MEASURED
A coconut, sold twice. The second sale stays in Kilifi.
Kilifi County’s poverty headcount is 46.4%. Our feedstock network exists only if thousands of households and village consolidators are paid — reliably, monthly, by mobile money against a weighbridge ticket, at a posted price — for material that had no buyer last year.
That is not a CSR programme attached to a carbon project. It’s the supply chain. Every shilling paid to a collector is recovered in the sale of a product a customer wanted — which is why the income is durable, not grant-funded.
SIX INDICATORS · MEASURED & REPORTED QUARTERLY
Household aggregation incomeSupplier register + mobile-money records
Direct jobs, by gender and under-35Payroll, quarterly
Local value retention (~65% of opex target)Supplier ledger tagged by county
Avoided open burningWeighbridge records vs. baseline survey
Farmer yield outcomesPaired demonstration plots
Skills certifiedOperator training register
WHAT WE MAKE
Two products from one fire.
POSITION
Coastal production, export-ready.
Our site at Kaloleni sits inside one of the densest coconut residue catchments in East Africa, with practical access to Mombasa Port, the SGR railway and Mombasa International Airport. Dense feedstock on one side, deep-water export logistics on the other — a combination not readily replicable elsewhere in Kenya.
For European buyers this means physical product — bulk or bagged biochar — can ship from Mombasa, while carbon offtake requires nothing to move at all.
~1 HR FROM MOMBASA PORT · SGR RAIL ACCESS · MOMBASA INTL AIRPORT
INSIDE THE OPERATION
What the chain looks like, end to end.
Sourcing, receiving, drying, pyrolysis, cooling, screening, testing, bagging, dispatch — one discipline, recorded at every stage.
Looking for durable removals with a story you can verify?
We’re in conversation with offtakers, brokers and climate funds now — for carbon removal offtake, physical biochar supply, or both. Tell us your volumes and timeline; we’ll respond with specs, batch data and a straight answer on what we can deliver, by when.