We are excited to start a new journey together with the incredible team at SilvaChar Environmental Inc. in British Columbia, Canada. Our larger T-1000 unit is deployed to handle forest fire causing residues, and convert that into valuable biochar based soil amendments and fertilizers. Our decentralized model ensures doorstep livelihood opportunities are created for underserved rural communities.
About us
Most crop and forest residues (biomass) are loose, wet, and bulky, making them very expensive to collect and transport. As such, many rural communities are often shut out from the bioeconomy, and their only recourse is to burn the local residues in open air. This creates significant air pollution as well as risks for catastrophic wildfires. Takachar develops small-scale, low-cost, and portable systems that can latch onto the back of tractors and pick-up trucks, and deploy to rural, hard-to-access communities to locally upgrade and densify residues on-site into higher-value, carbon-negative bioproducts such as fertilizer blends, biofuels, and chemicals. The process requires no external energy or heat to run. Our goal is to create a network of self-sufficient rural communities less dependent on unreliable imported supply chains for their essential chemical commodities. By doing so, we create localized unskilled jobs and promote environmental justice.
- Website
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http://www.takachar.com
External link for Takachar
- Industry
- Chemical Manufacturing
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Type
- Privately Held
Employees at Takachar
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Priyanka Gagneja
Data Person | Passionate about data analytics focussed on Climate Change - renewable energy , decarbonization, heating efficiency| Biochar enthusiast…
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Austin Young
A Project Engineer With Purpose
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Dr.Vipul Vibhanshu, Ph.D
First Principles Engineer at TAKACHAR I.Eng. ImechE London
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Tanmay Telang
Consulting | Human Centered Design | Entrepreneurship
Updates
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Takachar is proud to be a part of the PepsiCo Greenhouse Accelerator APAC. We look forward to working with the mentors from the Pepsico teams to develop and conceptualize a pilot together that has a bold vision to scale regenerative agriculture within Pepsico's ecosystem and outside.
Finally, our top 10 finalists met their mentors for the very first time. 🤝 Here’s what took place at our highly anticipated meet-in-person event held in Bangkok on May 8th. Our finalists presented their pitches, networked, and interacted with their mentors. During this time, we also had the opportunity to get to know our finalists better. This event marked the start of a four-month mentorship journey. As we look ahead to our finalists entering their learning and growth phase, we eagerly anticipate the progress they will make. 📈 Finalists, this is your moment to embrace the new opportunities your mentors will bring. So, get ready and accelerate! 💪🚀Stay tuned to find out how our finalists are performing! #PepsiCo #GreenhouseAccelerator #PepsiCoGHAC2024 #sustainability #startups
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Rice produces 12% of all food sector emissions. Rice cultivation also produces 48% of cropland emissions from methane. Rice straw is a crop waste byproduct and each year across Asia 300 million tonnes of it go up in smoke when burnt after harvest. We, at Takachar, are proud to be working with STRAW INNOVATIONS LTD and Aston University in India and the Philippines to develop and test a new model for rice straw collection for biochar production directly from farmlands that is less energy and capital intensive than baling, while at the same time work with rice mills and integrate into existing supply chains. The project is funded by the Innovate UK Energy Catalyst Programme. Pleaser find the press release here: https://lnkd.in/gnUsJ_Rz
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We are very excited to share that Takachar has been selected as a finalist (top 20 teams) for the XPRIZE Carbon Removal! In preparations for the finals next year, we will now be spending the next few months proving that our solution can do removals at a megatonne scale in the coming years and gigatonne scale by 2050. In the past, we have also been winners of the XPRIZE student team award and milestone award. A big shoutout and congratulations to the other finalists as well. https://lnkd.in/gudRtK8b
20 Teams Bring Cutting-Edge Solutions to XPRIZE Carbon Removal Final
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We’re proud to be a part of the #XPRIZECarbonRemoval Top 100 Teams Book! Learn more about our first-of-its-kind CDR solution as we continue our journey towards removing carbon dioxide at gigatonne scale. XPRIZE
We’re proud to present the Top 100 #XPRIZECarbonRemoval Teams! 🎉 These Teams represent a new generation of promising solutions across a range of carbon removal pathways. #GettingToGigatonne scale carbon removal will be an essential part of reaching our climate goals. This is one of the most significant grand challenges humanity has ever faced and will require hundreds, if not thousands, of innovative solutions to reach our goal. The Top 100 Teams come from 25 countries around the world and are building first-of-a-kind demonstrations across all carbon removal pathways: air, ocean, land, and rocks. Read more about the Teams here. We’re excited to see them scale up around the world! https://lnkd.in/eVrkQDBa #EarthWeek
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We'll be hosting an open house/demonstration in Novato during the San Francisco Climate Week (Thursday April 25 at 10:30 a.m.). If you're around and want to see a fire-breathing machine in action, please RSVP here: https://lu.ma/hga2woib
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@StartUpGET Tech Festival is back for 2024. Our CTO Kevin Kung will be attending the conference to join start-ups, investors and industry leaders in accelerating the best technologies for clean energy and climate. https://lnkd.in/d5Sa4Rwp
SET Tech Festival 2024
https://www.startup-energy-transition.com
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Our CTO Kevin Kung will be speaking at the 2024 North American Biochar Conference in Sacramento next week!
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New and exciting position #takachar. Come work with us and join a growing industry.