Biochar company Inkoh has launched a new headquarters in Landquart, Switzerland, supported by systems from Cula Technology and Next Generation Elements GmbH (NGE). 

The new facility will use pyrolysis to convert waste biomass into biochar, generating energy for its environment. 

Founded as a subsidiary of Zindel, a construction group based in Graubünden, Switzerland, Inkoh specializes in biochar-derived products for low-CO2 concrete, agricultural substrates, and animal feed. Its clients include different buyers such as Klark, Landi Schweiz, and a number of municipal buyers.  

At its newly introduced Landquart biochar headquarters, the company is using data systems developed by Cula Technologies. 

This facility is Inkoh’s fifth biochar site and the first to be powered by T:CRACKER® reactors developed by Next Generation Elements (NGE). 

The collaboration with Cula Technologies and NGE enables an optimized data collection process, with an operations layer the team uses every shift: incoming biomass deliveries, big bag creation with on-site label printing, moisture measurements, and KPI dashboards for weekly plant performance. 

These records then carry through to credit issuance via the Puro.earth registry and are audit-ready, eliminating the need for a second set of spreadsheets. 

“Scaling a biochar operation means repeating the same plant five times, without five different ways of collecting data,” said Cula Technologies in a publication.

“Through our partnership with Next Generation Elements GmbH , machine-level data from the three T-Crackers was in Cula from the first hour, and NGE’s own engineers worked off it while tuning the plant during commissioning. That is the point: the data layer is not something you bolt on once a plant runs stable, it is how you get it stable,” the company added.

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