The push for greater sustainability and resource recycling offers great opportunity for hardwood plantation owners. In addition to providing woodfibre to pulp, paper and textile manufacturers, Xylogic has pioneered new technologies that extract value from the carbon fraction as well as the gaseous and condensed liquids extracted from controlled pyrolysis.

Xylogic has patented its manufacturing process, and is in the process of scaling production, and commercialising applications for its intellectual property.

Since 2022, Xylogic has worked with the School of Chemical Engineering at the University of Adelaide, the Plant Biology unit of the School of Science and Engineering at Flinders University, and the South Australian unit of Metabolomics Australia at the Australian Wine Research Institute (AWRI) to refine and test the performance of Xylogic’s portfolio.

Xylogic has developed two product categories from the chemicals extracted from specific plantation hardwood feedstock: biostimulants for agriculture and lixiviants for metal precipitation.

The active fractions that Xylogic manufactures have application in the following markets:

- Abiotic stress treatment for agriculture, horticulture and viticulture,

- Catalysing seed germination to assist vigorous crop establishment,

- Liberating soil bound phosphorus to provide this critical nutrient to plants,

- Precipitating critical minerals from battery ‘black mass’ (Li, Ni, Mn, Cu, Co),

- Removing heavy metals from contaminated soils (Cd, Zn, Pb).