The world’s first continuous plant-based bio-energy producer. Turning fast-growing Bana Grass into plant-based replacements for coal and charcoal, underpinned by a five-year Rio Tinto Aluminium supply agreement.
Secure Offtake · First-to-market · Proven technology · Patented products.
The world produces approximately 8.9 billion tonnes of coal and 59 million tonnes of charcoal every year. Currently no plant-based substitutes exist at scale. SuperChar produces a high grade bio-char at scale through the continuous harvesting of its bana grass plantations. No peers - first to market, continuous production of bio-fuels. 100% of SCL production is immediately saleable by being first to market.
There is an insatiable global appetite to replace fossil fuels with bio-fuels. SuperChar is the Solution.
Current demand for charcoal is being met by cutting down old growth rainforests, mangroves, and other natural timber, particularly in Africa and Asia. Typically, it takes over 6 tonnes of wood to make one tonne of charcoal and the timber is usually more than 10 years old, before becoming suitable for harvesting.
SCL aims to promote the requirement for SOURCE VERIFICATION on all charcoal packaging to ensure total transparency throughout the supply chain for the end customers.
SCL can eliminate the annual destruction of over 750,000 trees through the use of SCL’s plant-based feedstock for its planned production rollout.
"6+ tonne of timber to make 1 tonne of charcoal"
First to market in plant-based bio-fuels
10+ years for timber to be mature for charcoal
"Meeting the demands of the rapidly expanding Global Market for Green Fuels."
Why SuperChar Plant Based Charcoal
SuperChar has the solution
After extensive research and testing, SuperChar Limited (SCL) has proven that a dedicated biomass hybrid grass “Pennisetum Purpureum X Pennisetum Americanum” (commonly called Bana Grass) is the optimum biomass feedstock in the production of a sustainable plant based green charcoal, green coal, bio-oils, biofuels, bio-methanol, and other renewable green energy commodities.
SCL is first to market, with no technology risk. The processing plant uses the proven SIMEC pyrolysis system, engineered and tested in Australia, and SCL has developed its own patented products and agricultural techniques that allow for rapid start-up, further reducing risk.
SCL currently produces four products from each modular plant - bio-pellets (bio-coal) for industry, bio briquettes (bio-charcoal) for domestic and export markets, high-protein animal feed pellets, and bio-char for use in the fertiliser, cosmetics & pharmaceuticals industries - with domestic and export markets developed for each.
SCL is developing a pioneering biomass-to-energy project in the Gladstone Region, Central Queensland, using Bana Grass and proven pyrolysis technology. In July 2026 SCL signed a five-year supply agreement with Rio Tinto Aluminium - validated by industry, local Government and independent analysis - initially supplying 35,000 tonnes per annum of bio pellets for the Yarwun and QAL alumina facilities at Gladstone, scalable to 400,000 tonnes per annum. First production is targeted for early 2028.
SCL has secured plantation land to produce its own Bana Grass feedstock, ensuring continuity and security of supply.
The Central Queensland farming industry has been identified as one of the key markets for diversification into the production of bio-fuels.
The SCL solution is carbon neutral and generates substantial carbon credits using the Bana Grass feedstock and the self-powered production process. The SCL solution also generates substantial Reef Credits by utilising a reduced level of nitrogen in growing the Bana Grass as compared to traditional cane farming.
The Executive Team has extensive experience in capital markets, agricultural products, business management and the trading of commodities and currency. The Executive Team is currently building expertise in the quantifying and trading of carbon credits and Reef (nitrogen) credits, as environmental credits will become a major contributor to the profitability of the business. The Executive Team has specific expertise in the research and development of optimising the growth and yield of Bana Grass.
SCL produces its own feedstock
Five-year Rio Tinto offtake agreement
Zero net carbon emissions
Plant based bio-fuels
The SuperChar Solution within Australia alone will reduce the plundering of wood from old growth rainforests and other illegal harvesting by up to 4,000,000 tonnes per annum
Global Deforestation
The global community is demanding a halt to the plundering of protected rainforests, mangroves, and various timber species throughout the world. Forests provide habitats for 80 percent of amphibian species, 75 percent of bird species and 68 percent of mammal species. Over 60 percent of all vascular plants are found in tropical forests.
Mangroves provide breeding grounds and nurseries for numerous species of fish and shellfish and help trap sediments that might otherwise adversely affect seagrass beds and coral reefs, which are habitats for many more marine species.
Since 1990, it is estimated that some 420 million hectares of forest has been lost through forest degradation (approximately 42 billion trees). Between 2015 and 2020, the rate of deforestation was estimated at 10 million hectares per year. (FAO 2020)
Mangrove deforestation generates 10% of emissions from deforestation globally
Destruction of carbon-rich mangroves Costs up to US$42 billion in economic damages annually
By 2050, South-East Asia will potentially have lost 35 per cent of its mangrove cover
Why SuperChar Bana Grass
- Bana Grass is a perennial species which is planted once and can be harvested for 15-20 years before re-planting.
- Bana Grass reaches maturity within 6 months of planting.
- Bana Grass can be harvested up to 3 times a year.
- Bana Grass is a high yielding crop.
- Bana Grass is highly tolerant to drought, is pest resistant and is semi nitrogen fixing (C4 plant).
- Bana Grass requires 50% less fertiliser per hectare then equivalent crops, including sugar cane.
- Bana Grass sequesters a high rate of carbon dioxide, being a perennial crop. The lack of tilling increases the carbon stored in the soil.
- Bana Grass reaches 14% protein within 6-8 weeks of planting, making it a high value cattle feedstock.
- Bana Grass converts to green charcoal with a high calorific value of over 25 GJ per tonne.
Perennial species
3 harvest yields a year
Sequesters a high rate of carbon dioxide
SuperChar's Sustainable Plant Based Charcoal
Planned Rollout
SuperChar Limited (SCL) is developing its first processing plant in the Gladstone Region, Central Queensland. The modular plant design allows production capacity to scale as market demand grows, and demand would support an accelerated rollout.
The charcoal processing plants are designed to be fully automated and are a sealed unit, with no toxic emissions. The oils and gases produced by the processing of the Bana Grass are consumed in the integrated gas turbines, which generate all power required for the charcoal processing plant and for all ancillary services.