Olleco opens new UCO-processing plant in Liverpool

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U.K.-based Olleco announced in late February the opening of its new used cooking oil (UCO) processing plant in Liverpool.

The UCO collected by Olleco will be refined in this new facility and then sent through a pipe to its biodiesel plant.

In addition to a comprehensive network of local depots, Olleco’s website states the company operates three UCO biorefineries, a biodiesel plant, a bulk liquid-storage facility and three anaerobic-digestion (AD) plants with support from a wider network of licensed AD facilities.

The biodiesel produced delivers carbon savings of 89 percent compared to fossil diesel.

The biodiesel will be dispensed at fueling stations and used in transport fleets.

“The new plant is a great improvement to this process and will help us continue to make our customers more sustainable,” Olleco stated.

Built from the ground up with bespoke, state-of-the-art equipment, the company said the new UCO-refining plant took 18 months to complete.

Olleco said it has been able to create an environment that enables it to process the UCO it collects more efficiently and safely, including building in features to improve manual handling and cleaning. 

“Thank you to the team at Liverpool who worked as part of and alongside this project for their hard work, dedication and creativity to bring this vision to life,” the company said.

“We would also like to extend our thanks to our partners and suppliers for their ongoing support,” Olleco added. “Watch this space. This new site is just one of many new initiatives we have coming to better serve our customers, and we look forward to what’s to come in the rest of 2025.”

Olleco employs over 1,000 people at 19 sites strategically located throughout the U.K. and Ireland.

The company services more than 50,000 catering establishments.

It converts the collected UCO into renewable fuels while the food waste is transformed into biomethane, electricity, heat and organic fertilizer.