Charwood Energy: Charwood Innovation, a subsidiary of Charwood Energy, announces the success of its €1.5m bond issue on LITA.co

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Saint-Nolff, October 15, 2025

Charwood Innovation, a subsidiary of Charwood Energy, announces the success of its €1.5m bond issue on LITA.co

Charwood Energy (ISIN: FR001400AJ60, ticker: ALCWE), an innovative player in the energy transition offering energy solutions from biomass recovery, is today announcing the successful €1.5 million fundraising by its subsidiary Charwood Innovation on Lita.co, a leading sustainable investment platform.

Adrien Haller, Chairman & CEO and founder of Charwood Energy, said:

“We would like to sincerely thank the investors on the LITA.co platform, who are now supporting us in accelerating the deployment of our pyro-gasification solutions for manufacturers and local authorities. The success of this transaction illustrates the value of our model and confidence in our strategy.”

A response to a major energy challenge

Heat currently accounts for nearly 45% of national energy consumption and remains largely dependent on natural gas, a fossil resource with high CO₂ emissions that is also subject to significant price volatility. Given this, manufacturers and local authorities are looking for sustainable alternatives that are capable of recovering their own biofuels, which often are not standardized.

Charwood Innovation meets this need through the development of the first independent and industrial French R&D center dedicated to pyro-gasification. This innovative technology makes it possible to produce competitive, decarbonized green gas from biomass, thereby helping to accelerate the energy transition.

A key step in Charwood Innovation’s development

Thanks to this fundraising, Charwood Innovation now has the necessary resources to bolster its equipment, expand its testing capacity and develop new ways of recovering syngas, particularly with a view to methanation and the production of molecules of interest.

This step is part of the Group’s long-term industrial strategy, already cemented in 2025 with the signature of a partnership with Verallia France for the supply and operation of a syngas production plant. This project is a first illustration of the recurring and sustainable business model that Charwood Energy intends to build.

Characteristics of the bond issue

The bond issue on LITA.co was for a maximum amount of €1.5 million and was fully subscribed. The bonds issued offer a gross annual interest rate of 9%, paid semi-annually over a period of four years, with repayment of the principal at maturity after a three-year grace period. The transaction was also backed by a 75% guarantee from Charwood Energy, combining a first demand bank guarantee and the pledge of its shares.

About LITA.co

A leading player in sustainable investment, LITA.co is a digital platform dedicated to financing the economy of tomorrow. Starting from €100, it allows citizens to invest their savings without compromising their values, by investing directly in the equity or debt of companies committed to the ecological and social transition. From SMEs to start-ups, cooperatives, sustainable real estate, renewable energies and agroecology, all companies involved in crowdfunding on LITA.co are carefully selected on the basis of both positive impacts and economic sustainability criteria. Approved as a crowdfunding service provider (PSFP) by the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and certified as both a Solidarity-Based Enterprise of Social Utility (ESUS) and by Finansol, the platform has already raised over €100 million from a community of 120,000 committed individual investors.

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About Charwood Energy

Convinced that biomass is one of the keys to meeting the challenges of the energy transition, Charwood Energy designs, installs and maintains customized solutions for the production of renewable energy from biomass.

Charwood Energy possesses a wealth of technical know-how and is proficient in all biomass recovery technologies - heating systems and networks, methanization and pyrogasification.

Positioned since 2019 in the promising process of pyrogasification, Charwood Energy is now also involved in the development and operation of pyrogasification units on its own account, to produce and sell green gas (syngas), biochar and carbon credits to industrial customers, through direct supply contracts.

The company is listed on Euronext Growth® Paris (ISIN: FR001400AJ60, ticker: ALCWE) - Eligible for inclusion in French PEA and PEA-PME equity savings plans. Charwood Energy has also been named an “Innovative Company” by Bpifrance.

Find out more at https://charwood.energy/en/investors  

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