PLANTS

The PLANTS division currently represents WeGrow’s fast-growing core business and is expanding dynamically in the international customer market.

WeGrow offers four of its own non-invasive hybrid varieties of the fast-growing Kiri tree. These are protected by plant variety rights and patents both in the EU and in other non-European countries such as the USA, South Africa, Turkey, Mexico and Uruguay.

WeGrow carries out industrial plant production in its own CropFactories. The first “CropFactory Germany” was completed and put into operation at the Tönisvorst site in 2021. Since then, production has increased by up to 70% each year. We now supply customers in 47 countries on 5 continents.

For our PLANTS customers, the cultivation of our hybrid varieties for sustainable timber production offers many ecological and economic advantages:

1. Timber harvest after only 3-4 years after planting for house construction
2. Sprouts again after harvesting, without re-planting
3. Absorbs a lot of CO₂ from the atmosphere
4. Improves soil fertility
5. Improves the water balance

TIMBER PRODUCTS

Since the end of 2020, the WeGrow Group has been selling the self-produced quality sawn timber of the Kiri tree as a wholesaler and works together with a retailer network in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

In the area of wood processing, the logs are sawn into boards of various dimensions and then technically dried in drying chambers. For logistical reasons, most of the timber is still processed into sawn timber at local sawmills operated by third parties, but the company also has its own small sawmill. The WeGrow Group also carries out further timber processing steps there, such as trimming, milling, planing and sanding.

In addition to the sawn timber product range, the company plans to offer ecological building materials from its own fully automated production facility, a ‘KiriFactory’, from 2025. Solid wood building modules for wall and ceiling construction (KiriBloX®) are to be offered here.

The KiriBloX® range of timber construction products developed by the WeGrow Group can be manufactured from Kiri trees that are on average 3-4 years old and are based on just a few different standardised building blocks. Similar to a LEGO system, this enables a wide variety of building constructions. A high degree of prefabrication and simple assembly on site reduce the construction time for the shell.

The absence of metals and glues as connectors makes our building materials even more sustainable, facilitates deconstruction and enables complete reusability as a circular building system.

From 2025, WeGrow plans to open its own KiriFactroy production plant for the manufacture of KiriBloX® timber construction products based on a secure material supply from sustainable Kiri wood cultivation outside natural forest stands.