Civara Group is Changing the World
Our Approach
Civara Group is comprised of leading edge experts in a variety of fields, that through collaborative cooperation, have the combined expertise to see any thermal treatment project through conception to full commercial operations. We start with your problem and work with you to determine what your best solution looks like. We believe that waste is a resource that can be up cycled and monetized to maximize value and directly contributed to sustainability.
Our approach begins with analyzing your different varieties of waste streams and complete an assessment of their potential pathways to created value. We then utilize this understanding to meticulously select specific thermal treatment systems and arrange them in a configuration that maximizes value for you . Finally, we provide all supplementary equipment needed for the execution of the plan that you and your team have created with our guidance.
What We Do
Civara Group works with centralized waste facilities to apply proven pyrolysis and dehydration technologies to convert waste wood, biomass, organics, and municipal solid waste into alternate fuels and other high-value bio products. This integrated approach lowers disposal costs, reduces environmental impact, and advances solutions in waste management, carbon sequestration, renewable energy, and food sustainability. Supported by over 50 years of combined team experience and strategic partnerships across waste processing, biochar production , and project financing, our model is demonstrated, scalable, and built for long-term sustainability.
Carbon
Raw Biochar
Retail & Wholesale
Raw biochar is untreated charcoal-like material produced directly from the pyrolysis of biomass, such as wood or agricultural waste, in a low-oxygen environment, ready for soil amendment or further processing without chemical activation
>70% Carbon
Raw biochar is untreated charcoal-like material produced directly from the pyrolysis of biomass, such as wood or agricultural waste, in a low-oxygen environment, ready for soil amendment or further processing without chemical activation
>70%+ Carbon
Exclusive Services
Let Civara Group work with your team to determine which of our thermal treatment systems and configurations will work best for your purposes. We will then work through the procurement, installation, commissioning, and operation of the system.
Allow Civara Group to work with your team to complete comprehensive training on everything required to effectively operate our thermal treatment systems. From heavy equipment operations to sifting and bagging of finished biochar, we have a training program to assist you at every point of your process.
We want to ensure that your project can be realized to its fullest potential. Knowing the value of our equipment and process ensures that we can be a key contributor to your success from the conception stage through to full capitalization.
Our Philosophy
Environmental Stewardship
Civara Group minimizes our collaborators environmental impacts through energy recovery, resource utilization, and sustainable practices, while maximizing economic returns. We reduce landfill waste, generate up-cycled bio products, increase emission reductions, and integrate with legacy energy grids.
Material Handling
We provide state-of-the-art transfer and processing services that optimize the sorting, recycling, and disposal of materials. Our goal is to streamline resource recovery for our clients and collaborative partners, while adhering to the highest safety and regulatory standards.
Technological Innovation
We have vetted the best quality thermal treatment systems for different biomass feedstocks that output the highest quality alternate fuels and up-cycled bio products. Our commitment to operational excellence and innovation drives our ability to develop sustainable resource recovery solutions.
Community Engagement
We actively engage with the communities we serve to promote resource recovery, recycling education, and environmental awareness. We believe that through collaboration we can create cleaner, healthier, and sustainable neighbourhoods. Our employee’s well- being, as members of these communities, is a central focus.
Community Engagement & ESG
Omnia Training Program is utilized to train staff in the communities with which we collaborate and depoly our equipment, creating high-quality, long term employment with Civara Group. We engage with each community and site operators to hire and retain community members for all necessary site level operations.
BIX Origin Platform is used for data collection, aggregation and retention to generate verifiable carbon offsets for our sites and associated operations. This proprietary software is used, both internally and externally, ensuring the highest standard is achieved for our and our collaborators’ carbon sequestration targets.
Educational Programming encompasses close engagement with local K-12 programs that allow the student body to visit and tour our sites. By demonstrating the opportunities in waste diversion and bio product up-cycling, we believe we are fostering the next great innovational leap.
Green School Initiative Program
We support municipalities who collaborate with us to deploy our equipment. Five percent of the capital cost for our technologies will be earmarked for a Green School Initiative Program, administered by the municipality and the local school board, with our ongoing support.
Our Team
Mark Beck
Mark is a seasoned entrepreneur with a diverse portfolio spanning landscaping, hospitality, construction, education, real estate and the drilling industry. Beck’s entrepreneurial spirit has driven his multi-industry success. Through Mark’s extensive network of contacts developed over 30 years of business operations in the greater Edmonton area we will be well positioned to address a variety of our needs.
Founder & CEO 
Chris Olson
Chris has been working in the bio-industrial and waste management sectors for over 12 years. Chris is a graduate of the University of Calgary as well as the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Chris has been involved in the design, fabrication, and operation of thermal treatment systems processing woody biomass into bio products and energy. Olson has also developed and deployed software solutions for internal data tracking and external material traceability through Plnt Industries. This technology will be utilized at our sites and will be the basis for all operational SOPs.
Operations Manager 
Sergio Torres
Founder Sergio Alejandro Torres Barbosa, originally from Mexico, is serial entrepreneur, involved with a variety of businesses, with his core business operating out of Edmonton, Alberta. A University of Alberta commerce graduate with additional training in project management from Stanford and Georgetown, he holds prestigious certifications like the Canadian Construction Association's Professional Gold Seal and has led parallel ventures. Earlier roles included IT consulting and a brief stint as a University of Alberta professor, while his entrepreneurial spirit was evident from childhood sales ventures, culminating in honours like an honorary ambassadorship in China in 2012.
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