Our soils almost all over the world need more and more help to remain fertile. The dry summers or monocultures have exhausted them and made them partially unusable for agriculture. Intelligent soil conditioners and technologically sophisticated fertilizers can be the solution.

We as EPC work as an exclusive license partner with different companies that have developed innovative and diverse solutions for soil and crop improvement.

The company Novihum Technologies GmbH uses lignite to produce a soil enhancer that can fertilize even driest soils. Its effectiveness has been proven in more than 400 individual tests with different crops and soil types with academic institutions and commercial customers. Together with this company, we have already built a pilot plant that currently produces up to 1,000 tons of NOVIHUM^® per year. The planning activities for the first large-scale plant with a capacity of up to 100,000 tons per year have already been completed. EPC Engineering & Technologies offers worldwide turnkey plant construction for this project.

NOVIHUM^® is a soil conditioner that is not only environmentally friendly but also makes sense economically - both for farmers and for operators of opencast lignite mines. The lignite is chemically modified and converted into a humus concentrate. In addition, important elements such as nitrogen and carbon are added, which promote plant growth. The patented process transforms lignite into a concentrated, carbon-rich granulate that is no different from the reservoirs of organic matter found in nature's best soils and is available even in the driest regions. 

EPC Engineering & Technologies GmbH with its new cooperation partner Pontes Pabuli offers an innovative process for phosphorus recovery. This novel technology provides a sustainable and at the same time economically feasible solution for the fertilizer ordinance, which was established by law in 2017. According to this regulation, the operators of sewage treatment plants (usually municipal companies) are obliged to recover phosphorus from sewage sludge and return it to the material cycle by 2032 at the latest. In this process, phosphate is extracted from incineration ash and recovered, from which high-quality fertilizer is produced. This standard fertilizer enriched with sewage sludge ash has a large sales market and generates calculable revenues. Furthermore, the Pontes Pabuli process impresses with its low process costs and efficient use of energy.