Could bio coal be the answer the steel industry needs to decarbonize?

Four years after CHAR Technologies opened its demonstration pyrolysis plant in London, Ont., it's expanding and moving the operation to the Niagara Region. The facility cooks wood waste in a kiln in an oxygen-free process that allows conversion to a fossil coal replacement and renewable natural gas. "What's really important right now is to stay away from fossil fuels when possible," one researcher says.