Desert Control AS

OSE:DSRT

Business Description

Sector

Materials

Industry

Chemicals

Headquarters

Norway NO

Employees

73

IPO date

Apr 14, 2021

Desert Control AS is a Norwegian environmental technology company that turns dry, sandy soil into soil that can hold water and support plants. Its core product is Liquid Natural Clay, a liquid mix of clay and water that is sprayed or injected into sandy ground to improve water retention, nutrient holding, and root growth. The company sells this treatment and the related application services to make poor soil more useful for farming, landscaping, and green spaces.

Its main customers are farms, golf courses, landscape operators, municipalities, and other landowners that need to grow plants or grass in dry conditions. Desert Control makes money by selling its soil-improvement treatment, often along with planning, application, and follow-up services. In practice, it sits between raw clay supply and end users, helping customers improve land that would otherwise need much more irrigation or would be hard to farm at all.

What makes the business different is that it does not sell fertilizers or seeds. It sells a soil-conditioning process that changes the ground itself, which can reduce water use and improve the economics of growing in arid areas. That puts Desert Control in a niche part of the environmental and agricultural supply chain, where the value comes from making existing land more productive rather than replacing it with a new crop or machine.