Woodtek C1000 Gen 2, sunrise on stainless
The Woodtek C1000 · hybrid biochar plant

Built in Britain.
Built to run.

A hybrid biochar plant designed, built, commissioned and supported by one engineering team, running 8,200 hours a year at plants across the UK, Europe and North America. Biochar, heat, electricity and carbon credits from one machine.

PLANTS IN THE UK · SWEDEN · NORTH AMERICA Designed and built in Mid Wales
The one-line problem

Make biochar without a shift manager.

Making biochar is not hard. Making it well, to a certificate, at the same rate every hour, for twenty years, without someone standing beside the machine, is the whole job. That is what the C1000 was engineered for.

Close up of the C1000 furnace
Hybrid biochar technology
The machine, followed through

Wood in. Four things out.

Wet chip goes in at the top loader. The ECO dryer takes it from around 50% moisture to 10% using the plant's own heat. The C1000 converts it: biochar out of one end, clean hot gas through a heat exchanger out of the other, then a wet scrubber before the stack. Every kilowatt is measured at the point of use through a certified meter. The number you see is the number you get.

One feedstock, four outputs
Top loaderwet chip in
ECO dryer50% → 10%
Biochar125 kg/hr
Heat1,250 kW
Electricity45 to 180 kW
Carbon credits2.4 to 2.7 / tonne
Woodtek top loader
01 Top loader
Woodtek ECO dryer
02 ECO dryer
C1000 Gen 2
03 C1000
Heat exchanger, scrubber and stack
04 Heat exchanger · scrubber · stack
Biochar pile at sunrise
05 Biochar · heat · power · credits
8,200
hours a year
~94%
availability
20 yr
design life
125 kg
biochar an hour
1.25 MW
heat
5
machines running
5
in build
Proof it runs

Plants in the ground.

A register, not a gallery, in commissioning order. A further four plants for another customer are in the pipeline.

"60,000 hours on the original prototype machine."
Carbon Hill 1, the R&D prototype
Carbon Hill 1
R&D prototype. Retired at 60,000 hours and replaced by BDC1
Gagnef plant room
Gagnef, Sweden
January 2024
Bioccus plant
Bioccus, Haywards Heath
March 2024. BEIS-funded R&D project, completed and decommissioned; plant now being sold and relocated
Brodie Biomass plant
Brodie Biomass, Surrey
September 2024
BDC1 plant, Welshpool
BDC1, Welshpool
January 2025
Taylors Grain Services plant
Taylors Grain Services, Skelmersdale
September 2026
BDC Ludlow plant
BDC Ludlow
September 2026
Ice River C1000 plant, design render
Ice River, Ontario
Installing from November 2026 · design render
Restord C1000 plant, design render
Restord, Cornwall
Spring 2027 · design render
Running In build Retired or relocating
The farm next door

This is not regenerative farming.
This is biochar farming.

Next to the factory is a working farm that has run on Woodtek biochar since 2019. No bought nitrogen, half the straw, a field that stays green in a drought. The full story, the numbers and the method are on their own page.

Wood
C1000
Biochar
Shed
Muck
Field
Grass
Cattle
Since 2019
No bought nitrogen. Half the straw. Green in a drought.
C1000 Gen 2, sunrise on stainless
Contact

Tell us about your project.

Every C1000 starts with a conversation about feedstock, heat and funding. Fill in as much as you can and one of our project developers will come back to you with what a plant would look like on your site, and what it would take to get there.

Open days and events
Woodtek holds open days at its Mid Wales HQ through the year, with a C1000 running beside the factory that builds it. Dates and tickets are on Eventbrite. Visits outside open days are limited by the availability of key Woodtek staff, so the project development team is the right first conversation.
Register for open days and events Next technology open day: Wednesday 20 January 2027
Woodtek Engineering Ltd · Caebardd Farm, Guilsfield, Welshpool, Powys SY21 9DJ
The more you can tell us, the faster we can help

Site visits outside scheduled open days are limited by the availability of key Woodtek staff, which is why the best first step is to engage with our project development team and look at early feasibility and project scope together.
Woodtek · Designed and built in Mid Wales