Elche company joins Greene Castellano Manchega from cleaning establishing a facility capable of converting different waste into pyrolytic oil also 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 that are currently sent to landfills each year, transforming them into this valuable compound.
The project will be carried out through a new joint venture named Valogreene KML. Planned investment reached 29 million euro, as reported in a joint statement by both companies.
The facility will process waste rejected by Castellano Manchega de Limpiezas, one of the region’s leading industrial waste specialists. The project is supported by Greene as well. In Valogreene CML, the rejected fraction of materials destined for landfill will be assessed and diverted into viable streams such as packaging of different types, organic fertilizer, sludge generated during production that is out of specification for agricultural use, and cosmetics.
With 40,000 tonnes of waste processed at the Greene facility, between 8,000 and 10,000 tonnes of bio-oil per year will be produced. This material, marketed under the Agnoil brand, will be used to create circular polyolefins and a new ecological plastics raw material.
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The project, with an investment of 29 million euros, will be located in industrial zone 8 of Madridejos, adjacent to the existing Castellano Manchega de Limpiezas treatment plant. The facility will cover about 11,000 square meters and will include a pyrolysis warehouse along with an office and workshop building. Construction began in December and the facility is expected to be fully operational in 2025. The project is projected to create 17 direct jobs and around 40 indirect jobs in the region.
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As the company’s CEO explains, Juan José Hernández: with this project, 40 thousand tons of waste will be kept out of landfills. This reduces soil and groundwater pollution and lowers greenhouse gas emissions. The company continues to advance sustainable solutions, leveraging its technology to address the waste challenge and give new life to materials that would otherwise be discarded.
Greene, a company founded in 2011 by four entrepreneurs from Elche and Chemicals, now employs more than 80 people. The firm offers a mature and efficient technology designed to manage and eliminate materials considered waste in multiple domains such as urban solid waste, industrial waste, biomass, and sewage sludge. The goal is to avoid burning or accumulating waste in landfills. Greene plants generate sustainable raw materials, including oils, calcium carbonate–rich fillers, activated carbon, synthetic waxes, and hydrogen, through a thermoconversion process that aligns with circular economy principles and supports the 2030 horizon.