Our Members

BioAdvance

Our Portuguese member BioAdvance has completed an industrial investment of 22 million euros for a new advanced biofuels production facility in Figueira da Foz, which will start with a production of 20,000 tons per year. The company's plan is to increase its capacity to 200,000 tons per year within 2-3 years, making the Portuguese manufacturer as one of the largest in Europe in the production of advanced biofuels.

Greenergy

Our UK and Dutch-based member Greenergy announced the successful commissioning of expansion works at two of their biodiesel plants in the UK and in Amsterdam. The works included upgrading the pre-treatment process capability, allowing for a wider range of waste oils as feedstocks to be processed into lower carbon biodiesel that will be used in transport fuels to reduce emissions.

Bunker One

For almost one month, our member Bunker One has supplied B100 biofuel to Color Line’s SuperSpeed 1 and 2 ferries travelling between Hirtshals in Denmark and Larvik and Kristiansand in Norway. With this switch to biofuel, Color Line’s two passenger ferries have reduced CO2 emissions by approximately 85% on average on the biofuel quantities used.

EWABA joins LIFE Bio-Lubricant project

In September 2022, EWABA joined as Communications and Dissemination partner a new LIFE Programme project named ‘Implementation of a value chain for the exclusive recycling of waste bio-lubricants and their regeneration through the production of new bio-lubricants’. The LIFE Bio-Lubricant project (acronym) is co-funded by the European Commission under the auspices of the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), and has a life duration of 33-months.

Project LIFE Bio-Lubricant has a total of four partners. The coordinator and responsible for the overall management of the project is A.&A. Fratelli Parodi. Venanzieffe is responsible for for the waste lubricant mixture collection and the first purification process. Finally, Q8Oils Italia is responsible for supporting and informing its widespread customer base and for the re-processing of recycled oils to produce and market added-value bio-lubricant solutions.

Our member, Italian advanced biofuels producer Sabio Fuels, part of the APG Group along with A.&A. Fratelli Parodi, will have a significant role to play for to success of LIFE Bio-Lubricant project by dealing with the part of bio-lubricants that cannot be used to produce new recycled bio-lubricants. These excess components will be treated by Sabio Fuels and used to produce advanced biofuels.

Project concept, scope and objectives

The use of bio-lubricants as a replacement to mineral-based lubricants is constantly growing in the European market, both for reasons of sustainability and due to their lower environmental impact/higher CO2 emissions reduction. There is currently no separate collection of waste bio-lubricants (UVEO’S) from those of mineral origin in the European Union. This results in a potential loss of efficiency of the current lubricants regeneration processes due to the presence of the bio-lubricant fraction in the lube-waste and leads to the lack of the possibility to obtain new bio-lubricating products with a regenerated base, with the consequent use of greater quantities of virgin raw materials for their production. The lack of a dedicated supply chain is also reflected in the absence of industrial regeneration processes specialized exclusively in recycling.

To respond to this issue, the LIFE BIO-LUBRICANT project gathers partners and stakeholders of a new European value chain for the realization and demonstration of a short and efficient separate collection on a semi-industrial scale, and subsequent regeneration of exhausted bio-lubricants, currently collected without distinction from those of mineral origin. The project will build a new supply chain focused on the collection of used bio-lubricants in various industrial sectors (hydraulic oils in steel mills, fluids for metal quenching, dielectric fluids, neat and emulsifiable soluble oils for metal treatment, etc.

An innovative technology developed by project coordinator A&A Fratelli Parodi will then be demonstrated in real life environment for the removal of impurities and waste (water, metal residues, etc.), hydrolytic cleavage of the bio-lubricant part, Separation of any traces of mineral contamination, with the aim to finally reintroduce the used bio-lubricant in the value-chain by transforming through esterification the obtained fatty acids into new base oils. Moreover,  process  byproducts will form the base for advanced biofuels according to RED 2 Annex IX. LIFE BIO-LUBRICANT will increase the culture of separate collection and use of regenerated products in different manufacturing sectors. The objective of the project is the recovery and treatment of 1,000 tons of waste bio/synthetic esters, with production of about 700 tons of regenerated bio-lubricants (70%) and 200 tons of advanced biofuels (20%).

For more information on the project developments and results please follow our dedicated webpage.

Prio

Maritime decarbonisation can be unlocked through higher biofuels blends!

Our Portuguese member PRIO announced a new international partnership with Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd. and World Fuel Services, incorporating higher biofuel blends to reduce maritime carbon emissions. Prio's waste-based biodiesel (ECO bunkers) allowed Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings to reduce CO2 emissions by 30%, avoiding 440 tons of CO2 in two of its cruise ships.

This new fuel, ECO Bunkers B30, is a 30% blend of advanced biofuel from waste feedstocks, produced at PRIO's biodiesel plant and blended at PRIO's tank terminal in Aveiro. The flexibility of this blending process makes it possible to scale production according to demand and adjust the percentage of Biodiesel mixtures (up to a 100% renewable product, which allows up to 86% GHG reduction), according to the needs of customers and objectives. of sustainability.

Bioledger

Bioledger published a press release following the approval of the implementing act on revised standards for certification schemes. Under the new regime, full digital traceability will be required throughout the global biofuel and feedstock supply chain by January 2023. 

Digitising the entire supply chain before the end of 2022 is a significant challenge but it is the overhaul needed to compile a single accurate dataset on the biofuel supply chain incentivised by the European climate policies. The Commission is working with Voluntary Schemes and stakeholders including Bioledger to demonstrate security and scalability of the central database and it’s third-party data providers

Bioledger, an independent software provider established in 2019 specifically to address risks in biofuel supply chains, has been working with diverse biofuel businesses, auditors and regulators to design, build and scale the mobile and web based applications that enable them to demonstrate compliance with the new requirements.

Renewable Energy Group (REG)

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. (REG) will install a state-of-the-art pretreatment facility in Germany, enabling the company to refine some of the lowest carbon intensity, hardest to convert waste fats and oils for bio-based diesel production. The project is located on the North Sea harbor of Emden, Germany at the border to The Netherlands. REG has selected BDI- BioEnergy International GmbH as the engineering, procurement and construction partner. 

Greenergy

Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd (‘ABSL’), a developer and producer of advanced biofuels, and our UK member Greenergy, a leading manufacturer and supplier of waste-based biofuels, announced this year the signing of a Joint Development Agreement to develop, construct and operate up to five municipal waste-based biofuel plants in the UK.

Design work for the first plant to be situated at Ellesmere Port near Liverpool is underway and commercial production is due to commence in 2025. Subsequent plants are planned over the following years.

BDI-BioEnergy International GmbH

Our Austrian member BDI-BioEnergy International GmbH celebrates 25 years! BDI gained international acclaim for its outstanding competences in both in-house development and the implementation of forward thinking and environmentally friendly technologies. The latter enables the profitable manufacturing of renewable energies through waste products and residual materials. BDI-BioEnergy International GmbH was in fact the first ever company to build industrial plants worldwide to convert used cooking oil and animal waste fats into top-quality biodiesel. Many of their patented technologies are the result of a long-term collaboration with local Styrian colleges including the Technische Universität Graz and the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz.

Renewable Energy Group (REG)

Prio

Our Portuguese member Prio has developed an environmentally friendly marine fuel that is currently available in ports across the Iberian Peninsula. The 'Eco-bunker' fuel has a 15% share of waste-derived biodiesel and is responsible for reducing CO2 emissions up to 18% and fuel consumption by up to 5%.

Envien Group

Our Slovak member Envien Group supplies biodiesel B100 to road freight carrier Yellow Express, launching greener operations with high biodiesel blends for trucks through the Biojazda.sk project.

The Scania Group truck, tested by Yellow Express, and supplied by Envien’s Meroco plant, is fully adapted to burn B100 (100% biodiesel) fuel without fossil diesel into the mix or any engine modifications.The domestic Association for the production and use of biofuels (ZVVB) states that “with current renewable energy options, Slovakia is unable to meet its commitment of 14% of renewable energy sources by 2030. High biofuel blends in road transport are already possible and can represent a cost-effective solution to achieve additional CO2 savings.“ 

Greenergy

Our member Greenergy has announced plans to produce low carbon fuels from waste tyre feedstock. The project, located near London, will utilise pyrolysis and hydrotreating technologies to convert waste tyres into renewable drop-in advanced biofuels. The process will also recover carbon black, a product that can be used in the circular economy to produce new tyres and other industrial rubber products.