Our founding members
Dirk Kaiser
Director, Head of Operations
Ralf Kretzschmar
Director, Head of Plant Infrastructure
Ernst van Biljon
Head of Finance
Heiko Beckers
Head of Sales
Quality control from harvest to shipping
We ensure premium quality in every bag of charcoal we ship. Because we produce the product and pack it, therefor maintaining quality at every step. This also means there’s less distance for the charcoal to be transported, resulting in less breakage and less dust. The result is a truly premium product, competitively priced and shipped to anywhere in the world.
Heiko Beckers at Farm Hamburg, Namibia
The five founders of Namibian Retort Charcoal are all farmers in Northern Namibia. Despite carefully managing their livestock, they have each been impacted by invader bush growth on their land. This motivated them to found NRC in 2016 with the purpose of sustainably utilising this abundant, renewable resource for charcoal production while at the same time helping themselves and other farmers to reverse the negative effects of over-bushing.
Sustainable. Natural Reserve. Premium charcoal.
Before, farmers would take a bulldozer to remove encroachment bush and burn it in a heap. Today, it’s profitably harvested and safely turned into high quality charcoal using steel retorts to minimise emissions.
The result is slow-burning charcoal for the perfect barbecue (braai) and great, clean-burning charcoal for restaurants.
