Restoring the power of Soil
Science powers our mission to capture and store carbon while creating fertile soil
Speeding up the process of humification
Humify has invented a highly innovative process that transforms biomass into artificial humic substances. The efficiency of this continuous process enables its use on a global scale, to restore fertile soil and enhance carbon sequestration in soil.
The production and application of Humify Humus addresses two global problems — food security and climate change.
The benefits of Humify Humus
Increases fertility
Humic substances increase nutrient uptake in plants. The application of Humify Humus increases soil fertility and yield by up-to 20%. At the same time Humic substances reduce the need of fertilisers and pesticides while keeping pollutants away from the plants.
Improves water holding capacity
Humify Humus enhances the soil’s water-holding capacity, helping crops stay hydrated longer and reducing the need for irrigation. Treated soils retain up to 27% more water than untreated ones, and even after 10 days without rain, they hold five times more moisture. This ensures better plant resilience and productivity during dry periods.
Reduces cost
Humify Humus reduces the need for synthetic fertilizers by naturally improving nutrient availability in the soil. This not only lowers input costs for farmers but also decreases dependence on chemical products. By replacing a portion of synthetic fertilizers with Humify Humus, growers achieve healthier soils, sustainable yields, and long-term cost savings.
Restores soil microbiome
Scientific studies increasingly identify a vital microbiome as the key player for healthy soil. By stimulating the microbiome Humify Humus restores degraded soils and unlocks their potential to sequester carbon and stimulate plant growth.
Enhances CO₂ capture
The capacity of soil to store organic carbon represents a key function of soil that is decisive for climate regulation. Humify Humus enhances the carbon storage capacity of soil.
Soil health matters
Soil is the largest terrestrial carbon sink and the foundation of thriving crops. Yet, to meet rising food demand, peatlands and grasslands have often been converted for industrial agriculture, losing important carbon sinks. Even though it makes up a small part of the soil, organic matter (humus) plays a huge role in maintaining soil structure, fertility, and water retention.
With 75% of arable land already facing degradation, our mission is to reverse this trend to ensure food security and mitigate climate change. (FAO.org).
- Global status of Human-induced soil degradation
- Very High Severity
- High Severity
- Moderate Severity
- Low Severity
- Stable land, ice cap or non-used wasteland
“If the level of carbon stored by soils in the top 30 to 40 cm of soil increased by 0,4% per year, the annual increase of CO2 in the atmosphere would be significantly reduced”
“4 per 1000 initiative” – Soils for Food Security and Climate
Speeding up a natural process
Top 10 innovation in chemistry in 2021
To restore soil, organic matter must be replaced, but the natural decomposition of organic leftovers into humus takes long periods of time, yielding only small amounts of humic substance.
Humify GmbH, founded on the research of Professor Markus Antonietti, developed a disruptive process to manufacture artificial humic substances (A-HS) through a continuous Hydrothermal Humification process.
The efficient, fast, and cost-effective HTH-process is suitable for global-scale applications in the gigaton range, capable of reversing soil degradation and significantly enhancing carbon sequestration in soils worldwide.
Humic substances: the key player in soil
Artificial humic substances (A-HS) enhance soil health and fertility by improving soil structure and water retention, binding and retaining essential nutrients, acting as redox buffers, and promoting plant growth.
According to the recent scientific findings, the power of soil microorganisms can be leveraged by the addition of less then 1t per hectare of artificial humic substances enabling soil to capture and store up to 50t additional CO2 while boosting fertility by approx. 20%. (Source)
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Our fields of application
Biomass providers
Worldwide, large amounts of biomass waste are produced from various sources including livestock, industries, agriculture and households. With our process we can transform any of these biomass waste streams into Humify Humus.
Biogas producers
Using biogas waste Humify technology can speed up the process of biogas production and enhance methane gas yields significantly while producing organic matter for agricultural use.
Farmers
Humify Humus has several benefits for agricultural use. It increases soil fertility and yield by up-to 20%, improves water retention capacity and acts against erosion while reducing fertilizer use and costs for farmers
Our team of experts
Dr. Svitlana Filonenko
Acclaimed Sustainability & Biomass transformation Expert, bridging Fundamental and Applied Research, impactful Max Planck Institute Leadership
Harald Pinger
Various CEO & CFO positions, Expert in Finance, Production and R&D. Industrial Goods, MedTech, FMCG
Andreas Dittes
Tech Entrepreneur & Growth Hacker. Technology, Automation & Data Business Models
Scientific advisory board
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Markus Antonietti
Highly decorated, h-index of 222, TOP 10 in chemistry worldwide. Many industry co-operations & patents