Circularity2 Locates in Cross City, Florida
08/28/2025
News Release
Contact: Diane Scholz, NFEDP
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Circularity2 Locates in Cross City, Florida
CROSS CITY, FL – August 22, 2025 – Circularity2 announced plans today to construct a biochar facility in Cross City (Dixie County), Florida. The company is developing facilities to produce biocarbon from woody biomass by-products such as forestry and sawmill residuals. The demand for biochar (or biocarbon) is growing rapidly, for application as agricultural soil amendments, water purification, carbon-neutral industrial products and other uses.
While some details of the project remain company confidential, Circularity2 will make significant investment to build and operate an efficient, highly productive biochar manufacturing facility in Cross City. The Cross City location was selected based on the proximity to the substantial wood basket, harvesting activities and sawmills in the area. Dixie County’s reputation and long, long history for its skilled workforce in silviculture and wood products manufacturing make the location especially attractive.
The Cross City plant will create up to 35 new jobs at the Cross City site. The company is also considering development of additional projects in the region.
The new facility will locate on a 24-acre site at the Cross City Industrial Park and will house the processing, packaging and product storage and shipping activities. Several hundred thousand tons per year of wood coming into the facility will be chipped, screened, and milled to create consistent size chips which are then dried to remove water. The dried chips will be fed into kilns where it will be “cooked” at high temperature (in a process called “pyrolysis”) to produce the biochar. Biochar leaving the kiln will be cooled and packaged for delivery to the end customers. The facility is designed for very low emissions and a high-efficiency process that will recover surplus energy from the process to meet most of its thermal and electrical needs.
Dixie County Commissioner Mark Hatch stated, “Circularity2 has brought an excitement and energy to the entire county! The developers have been here 4 or 5 times just to get to know us and the citizens. The creation of new jobs and the capital investment will stimulate additional economic development here at our industrial park.” Karen VanAernam, Dixie County Economic Development Coordinator added, “It has been an honor to contribute to this project, which is one of the most exciting opportunities for Dixie County’s future. Circularity2 will be a great corporate partner and is already showing strong interest in being involved in our community.”
The North Florida Economic Development Partnership (NFEDP) was instrumental in bringing the project to Dixie County and facilitated the purchase of the new industrial park, introductions to engineers, feedstock consultants, sawmill owners, city and county dignitaries, and FloridaCommerce representatives.
“The extraordinary assistance we received from City and County officials and NFEDP was a key consideration in our decision to build our flagship plant in Cross City”, stated Cary Johnson, CEO of Circularity2. “We are delighted with the level of support that has been provided to us, and eager to move to the next stage of our collaboration.”