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Optimum Oils extends partnership with Q8Oils
Cliff Thrussell, managing director, Optimum Oils and Andy Dixon, country manager, Q8Oils Optimum Oils has signed a further three-year contract with Q8Oils for the supply of Q8 lubricants for the...
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Slicker shortlisted for waste oil recycling
A Midlands firm which specialises in the recycling of hazardous waste lubricating oils, previously used in motor vehicles and machinery, has been shortlisted for a national award for the second...
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QMRE gains vital permit for plastic waste-to-oil system
...the plastic waste-2-oil operator can start processing plastic waste at its 25,000 square foot HQ complex at Hoo, Rochester, Kent. As StClair-Pearce explained: “Although we are not actually incinerating anything,...
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World first ‘waste to biofuels’ plant progresses to FEED stage
...household waste annually, the amount produced by a large town, from landfill and incineration, converting it into renewable low carbon fuel. By using waste as a feedstock, the plant will...
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Street-Porter backs biogas plant
...schools. To tackle the growing problem of food waste, Emerald Biogas has taken its Waste Warriors: Food for Thought campaign into at schools. “Food waste to landfill is a growing...
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Delivering SAF at scale: a sector investing in future production
...Stanlow by end 2026 • Velocys is developing plans for a SAF plant at Immingham • Phillips 66 supplying BA from Humber with SAF (co-processed waste oils) Among some of...
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New leadership team at Lifecycle Oils fuels expansion plans
...Graeme, Suzanne and Mark to our portfolio company Lifecycle Oils, and to announce the promotion of Adam to CEO. Lifecycle Oils is a rapidly growing business and will be a...
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Nicholl Fuel Oils achieves a fuel first
...waste fats and vegetable oils. When compared with current conventional diesel fuels, HVO will reduce CO2 emissions by up to 90% and can be used in conventional diesel engines either...
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How Phillips 66 is driving the industry evolution to future fuels
...emerged when only vegetable oils (e.g. rapeseed, soybean and corn oil) were used as feedstocks, however, with the advancement in production methods allowing the use of waste fats, oils and...
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Vintage year of success for Millers Oils
In a year that the country has honoured outstanding achievement at the London Olympics, and longevity with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, Millers Oils celebrated a Queen’s Award for Enterprisein its...
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Technology to improve production of fuels from waste in new partnership
...tyres and plastic waste into high value oils and carbon black. The issue of plastic pollution is huge. Approximately seven billion of the estimated 9.2 billion tonnes of plastics produced...
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QM Recycled Energy unveils new HQ
...waste-2-oil processing. From its original, small test and development operation in Longfield, Kent, QMRE has made an ambitious move into 25,000 sq. ft. factory/office suites in Kingsnorth Industrial Estate, Hoo,...
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P66 agrees UK-first sustainable fuel supply
...the continued development, adoption and scaling up of sustainable aviation fuel. “The Humber Refinery was the first in the UK to co-process waste oils to produce renewable fuels and now...
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AHFL chooses UK for revolutionary plastic-to-fuel plant
...make concrete and road paving materials, meaning the system produces minimal waste. A fully operational AHFL line can process over 2 metric tonnes of waste plastic per hour, producing 57,600...
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James Hygate, Firefly Green Fuels: challenges and progress on the pathway to green aviation
Firefly Green Fuels was founded with a desire to decarbonise aviation by transforming a wholly biogenic waste – sewage – into a truly sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). With demand for...
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Avioxx: innovating processes to deliver price parity for sustainable aviation fuel
...leading technology provider for sustainable aviation fuel, produced from waste materials, to enable net zero emissions for air travel. The company has developed a patented process to transform low-cost waste...
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New waste to SAF start-up launches in London
...Wilkinson, CTO, and entrepreneur Chris Hancock, CEO, Avioxx uses a novel patented process to produce net zero fuel from waste plastics and other wastes that would otherwise be destined for...
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Distributor diaries August – the latest updates from our distributor community
...Oils – supporting their community Nolan Oils, the Bicester-based fuel distributor, is always keen to support and help their local community. Over the last 12 months, they have sponsored and...