Mantria Industries Opens World’s Largest BioChar Plant

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DUNLAP, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mantria Industries, LLC proudly announces the opening of the Mantria Place EternaGreen Center – the world’s largest BioChar plant. The Center, located in Dunlap, Tennessee, can potentially sequester 96,000 tons of CO2, reduce 43,000 tons of waste, produce 32,000 tons of EternaGreen™ BioChar annually, and bring an estimated $10 million in revenue.

“The opening of the Center has exceeded even our highest expectations,” exclaimed Troy Wragg, Mantria Industries Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO. “This state-of-the-art facility is truly a milestone. From work that began in the 1970’s, we are thrilled to be a part of this epic time for the BioChar scientific community.”

The Center is also the world’s first commercial-scale BioChar facility, and will transform waste into valuable products, assist in the reduction of pollution, increase agricultural production, create sustainable businesses, and employ local laborers and engineers.

“We are proud to be a part of the world’s first industrial-scale plant for BioChar and look forward to raising the bar on clean energy technologies,” Amanda Knorr, Mantria Industries Co-Founder, Vice Chairman, President and COO.

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[GliderGuider]

1. Very nice.

It's good to see some commercial movement on this technology.

[Fotoware58]

2. Good, but...

that will only offset an average 9600 acre wildfire. Wildfires in forests put out 80-300 tons of GHG's per acre. It seems that if we cut wildfire acreage in half, that would leave 40 MILLION tons of GHG's sequestered within our forests (using only a VERY conservative 10 tons per acre as a benchmark). Unfortunately, wildfires are being allowed to burn in more remote areas, spewing GHG's into our upper atmosphere by the megaton. These huge fires have been mapped out into chunks that reach 100,000 acres, without the legally-required NEPA analysis and documentation, as well as public input from the local communities. We've already seen where these Let-Burn fires impact the public in many, many ways. Why do we continue to allow these intensely damaging fires to raom "free-range"? There are NO benefits to letting these fires burn, despite what the government tells you.

Yes, there is no doubt that bio-char has some good benefits but, they are just a drop in the bucket compared to the big picture of carbon sequestration in our National Forests.