About Edelmark
Edelmark AS, founded in 2020 after operating as a sole proprietorship since 2013. In the company’s initial phase, its core business has been to develop and promote small-scale earthworm composting (vermicompost) and organic cultivation solutions.
Our Vision
Edelmarks vision is to be a key player in the green shift by developing technologies and promoting effective processes that use organic waste or Bioresources as raw material to produce valuable products that promote organic farming, while addressing environmental challenges related with waste disposal.
Our concept
The business concept of Edelmark is transforming bioresources into new environmentally friendly products both in solid and liquid form with “zero waste”. The products can be used for soil amendment purposes and as organic fertilizers. Edelmark aims at
- Promoting the concept of Circular economy by employing effective vermicomposting process for transforming biowastes to organic fertilizers with zero waste
- Providing organic fertilizers for the growing organic farming activities in Norway and other parts of the world for the production of healthy food
- Becoming a reliable partner to address the question of sustainability of actors that handle bioresources by sharing knowledge and providing consultancy service
We are sustainable
Edelmark is now collaborating with a biogas plant and testing its effective vermicomposting in solid bio-waste to produce organic fertilizer in the form of vermicompost and liquid fertilizer. Edelmark creates values by using biowaste, that usually gets dumped by biogas plants, as a raw material. Edelmarks solutions solve the economic and sustainability challenges of the biogas plants associated with bio-waste.
Edelmarks solution will improve the efficiency and profitability of biogas plants by utilizing the biowaste as a raw material for the effective and efficient vermicomposting process the company has developed.
Who we are
Alene Tesfamichael (M. Sc.)
Founder and CEO of Edelmark AS
- Agromomist
- Expertise in organic waste managment, composting, vermicomposting and sustainability
- Developer of the Edel-Juice extraction method
- Over 10 years of R & D experience with vermicomposting in Norway
- Over 15 years of R & D experience in Ethiopia
Dereje T Asefa (PhD)
Co-founder and Member of Advisory board of Edelmark
- Industrial and environmental microbiologist
- Expertise in sustainable waste management solutions, recycling and treatment of organic waste
- Over 15 years of experience in R & D, environmental management, leadership
- Worked as a HSEQ manager in Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway
Vibeke Stølen (M. Sc.)
COO of Edelmark AS
- Economist
- With 10 years of experience from commercial communication and concept development,
- Over 15 years of experience from entrepreneurship, business development and innovation processes.
