Environmentally friendly green charcoal: Mozambique’s first production unit coming soon to Muanza, Sofala

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Environmentally friendly green charcoal: Mozambique’s first production unit coming soon to Muanza, Sofala

3:28 CAT | 21 Oct 2022

Photo: LevasFlor Sustainable Forestry

Plans are underway to build an eco-friendly charcoal production unit In Muanza district, Sofala – the first of its kind in the country.

Budgeted at 26 million meticais, the project is financed by the World Bank.

The factory will have the capacity to produce 2,500 tons of ecological, or ‘green’, charcoal per year, using sawdust and woodchips cast off by local timber operators.

The initiative, from Levasflor, a Swedish-owned Mozambican forestry company with 15 years operating in Sofala province behind it, is now awaiting the result of an environmental impact study to get off the ground.

The firm’s managing director, Nils von Sydow, explained to Radio Mozambique that ecological charcoal is in high demand on the international market, where a tonne currently fetches US$800.

“Most of the charcoal is going to be exported to Europe and the United States,” he said. “It means that the charcoal has environmental certification and commands a good price internationally.”