Greene company from Elche and a group from La Mancha will invest $29 million to convert waste into bio-oil

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Elche company joins Greene Castellano Manchega from cleaning Establishing a facility capable of convert different waste into pyrolytic oilAlso known as bio-oil. The facilities will be located next to the treatment plant in the Toledo municipality of Madridejos and the purpose is to Recover up to 40,000 tonnes of waste currently they go to landfill every year and they turn them into this compound.

The project will be carried out through a new joint venture. Valogreene KMLAnd Planned investment reached 29 million euro, as reported in a statement by both companies.

The facility will process waste rejection managed by Castellano Manchega de Limpiezas, one of the region’s main companies specializing in industrial waste, which supports the project along with Greene. Specifically, in Valogreene CML, the rejected portion of materials destined for landfill will be evaluated as follows: packaging different types, organic fertilizer Sludge generated during the production process that is out of specification for agricultural use Cosmetics.

Greene’s headquarters in Elche. Rafa Arjones

With 40,000 tonnes of waste processed at the Greene facility, Between 8,000 and 10,000 tonnes of bio-oil per year. This material, which Greene will market under the Agnoil brand, will be used in the production of circular polyolefins, a new raw material. ecological plastics.

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The project, which has an investment of 29 million euros, will be located in industrial zone 8 of Madridejos, next to the existing Castellano Manchega de Limpiezas treatment plant. The facility will occupy the surrounding area 11,000 square meters and will feature, among others, a pyrolysis warehouse and an office and workshop building. Work began in December this year and the facility is expected to be fully operational in 2025. The project will produce production in the region 17 direct jobs and about 40 indirect jobs.

As the company’s CEO explains, Juan José Hernández, “With this project, we will prevent 40 thousand tons of waste from going to landfills. We will limit pollution of soil and groundwater, reducing greenhouse gases. “We continue to work to offer sustainable solutions, thanks to our technology, to the waste problem, which is an important problem in the world and to which we give new life.”

Greene is a company born in 2011. The initiative of four entrepreneurs Elche, Chemicals and currently has more than 80 employees. The company brings to market a mature and efficient technology that responds to the need to manage and eliminate materials considered waste in different areas, such as urban solid waste, industrial waste, biomass and sewage sludge, by preventing them from being burned or accumulated in landfills. . Greene plants produce sustainable raw materials (oils, calcium carbonate-rich fillers, activated carbon, synthetic waxes, hydrogen) thanks to a process that allows the elimination of these materials. sustainable thermoconversion, profitable, which allows meeting the parameters of the circular economy and the 2030 horizon.

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