News
Collaboration ensures inaugural Suppliers Cup is a huge success
...Rocky Sivell, Regional Operations Director at John F Hunt Power. The aim was to bring the two companies together for a common cause – supporting those in need by raising...
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Insight
Marking a decade of service: the depot built in a weekend
This month marks the ten-year anniversary of a pivotal achievement for brothers John and Robert Weedon of Cornwall-based fuel distributor Mitchell & Webber who took on the ultimate challenge of...
News
Minister hails Wrightbus as fantastic clean growth example during Northern Ireland visit
Leading bus manufacturer Wrightbus has been hailed by the Government’s Investment Minister as a “fantastic example” of a UK company “embracing clean growth”. Lord Dominic Johnson was speaking after visiting...
News
Delivering SAF at scale: a sector investing in future production
...oil feedstock at the refinery, and British Airways will add it into the existing pipeline infrastructure which feeds several UK airports including London Heathrow. Using the existing infrastructure to deliver...
News
High cost and limited feedstock hinder scaling of SAF
High cost and limited feedstock are key hurdles facing the scaling of global sustainable fuel (SAF) production, according to a recent report by Energy Industries Council (EIC) on the global...
Analysis
Bio-CNG supplier ReFuels announces first profitable quarter
...supply concerns insisting: “Biomethane supply is chasing transport demand and is not constrained by feedstock availability.” Refuels has worked with Foresight Group, to align biomethane sourcing, refuelling infrastructure and certificate...
Sponsored
ESL Fuels Biofuel Market Update – Q1 2025
Feedstocks Following a strong rally in the final quarter of 2024, Northwest European (NWE) UCO prices continued to strengthen across Q1, rising 10% to reach a two-year high of $1140/mt...
News
UKPIA welcomes FuelsEurope climate neutrality pathway
...for All’ pathway also shows that intermediate CO2 reductions of 100 million tonnes (Mt) are achievable by 2035. John Cooper, director general of FuelsEurope, commented; “Today we are setting out...
Opinion
Distributor urges UK Government to follow Irish lead on heat obligation, as Cornish trial delivers huge carbon savings.
...with local villagers. They are still bemused as to why this hasn’t been implemented in similar rural communities.” https://youtu.be/eN6ERpV0P-k?si=VxyYnVTipxVT9tMV Transforming lives Mitchell & Webber Director John Weedon said: “We wanted...
News
‘A real thirst for expansion and growth’ at Aztec Oils
...the acquisition will see Aztec procure Caldo’s manufacturing facilities at St Helens in Merseyside, along with distribution operations at Newton Abbot in Devon and Rhuddlan in North Wales. John Longstaff and John Warner from BHP Corporate Finance acted as lead advisors to Aztec...
News
A champagne day for Hull-based Rix
...Lerrix by Lucinda Rix, daughter of company chairman, John Rix. The name “Lerrix”, explained John, comes from Lucinda’s initials (Lucinda Emily Rix), coupled with the company convention of having the...
News
Four MX-5s are the first cars to drive the length of Great Britain using sustainable fuel
To celebrate 35 years of the Mazda MX-5, four Mazda MX-5s – one of each generation – drove a 1,000-mile route from Land’s End to John O’ Groats using...
News
White Rose director hangs up his boots
Over the finish line – John Roberts completes his fourth charity run John Roberts of Selby-based White Rose Fuel Services has completed his fourth (and last) run in memory of...
News
John Alton – 52 years in the lubricants industry
John Alton (right) receives his gold watch for 25 years’ service to Morris Lubricants from director David Goddard One of the most highly respected figures in the UK lubricants industry...
Interview
Mitchell & Webber: driving the ground breaking campaign for a liquid fuel future
...feedback In December 2022, we organised an event with some of the residents of Kehelland to give them the opportunity to give honest feedback to Ken Cronin, CEO UKIFDA, and...
Knowledge
Safeguard the future with effective succession planning
...the well- known high street brand, John Lewis, which is owned by its employees and is a standard bearer for companies which are owned in this way. The Employee Ownership...
News
Valero rebrand for three Ascona sites
...earn 1p for every litre of fuel purchased. This can then be redeemed in store or swapped for rewards at Marks & Spencer, Argos and John Lewis, as well as...
Interview
In conversation with Dave Walmsley: enthusiastic for NWF Fuels expansion
...as a John Lewis management trainee in Liverpool, moved into sales, then spent 25 years with office supplies company, Lyreco, during a time of rapid growth and the beginnings of...