Blending and additives
Additive requirements, theoretical blend calculation and hand blends with partner laboratories, and sample test analysis. How we handle additives →
UCO, animal fats, POME, acid oils and glycerine, matched to the biodiesel, HVO and SAF producers who run on them. Independent, and answered the same working day.
Sustainable Commodities 3 B.V. is an independent brokerage for waste-based feedstocks and renewable fuels. We work between collectors, producers and end buyers, and we get paid for one thing: closing deals cleanly and on time.
We have spent years in this market with UCO and animal-fat collectors, FAME, HVO and SAF producers, blenders and the major oil companies. That network is what you are hiring. For oil companies and end buyers especially, our direct relationships with collectors and producers mean reliable, traceable volume. When you need a home for your product or a straight answer on a spec, we usually know who to call.
Whether it is your first cargo or your fiftieth, we keep it easy.
We broker spot cargoes and we are good at it, so bring us a parcel that needs a home this month. But the larger part of what we do is long term supply into a plant or an offtake that has to run for years. That takes qualification, sampling rounds, certification and patience, and it is where a broker actually earns the commission. A spot cargo placed well is often how a term relationship starts.
We are KYC cleared with oil majors, international trading houses and polymer producers. If you are a producer trying to reach one of them, that clearance is months of work you do not have to repeat, and it is the difference between an introduction that lands and an e-mail that is never opened.
A producer with a good molecule and no network gets nowhere. We take your material to traders and business development teams who already take our calls, present it in the terms they screen on, and tell you honestly what came back.
On feedstocks and fuels we never take title and we do not trade our own book, so neither side is ever bidding against its own broker. Additives are the one exception, and we say so before you commit. We are paid on business that concludes, which is why you will hear it when your parcel is not ready.
Finding the counterparty is the easy half. These are the things that decide whether the deal actually closes, and we do them as part of the brokerage rather than as an extra.
Additive requirements, theoretical blend calculation and hand blends with partner laboratories, and sample test analysis. How we handle additives →
Flexitanks, isotanks and containers on the long lanes, through forwarding partners with trade lane desks in Antwerp and Rotterdam. We make the introduction rather than marking up your freight, so you see the quote they gave. Logistics and storage →
We help counterparties find storage using long-standing terminal contacts, which is often the thing holding a deal up. Storage and logistics →
We introduce you to a certification body and stay involved through the audit instead of handing you over at the door. ISCC certification →
A speciality here rather than an afterthought. Send the discharge analysis and you get an honest read. Off-spec cargoes →
Delivered the cargo and the money stopped? We are brought in by sellers and buyers to unblock stalled trades, including ones we never brokered. Neutral, commercial, and far faster than arbitration. When a payment stops →
We check the pack before it reaches a buyer, because most rejected enquiries fail on a missing document rather than on price. Document library →
A page per market with the specification buyers screen on, the certification that decides the price, and the regulation that decides whether the cargo moves at all.
Collector volume placed with FAME, HVO and SAF producers, with the traceability chain that survives an audit.
We broker used cooking oil between collectors and aggregators on one side and FAME, HVO and SAF producers on the other, across Europe and on import parcels. UCO sits in Annex IX Part B of the Renewable Energy Directive, and that is where the value comes from. Which means the certificate and the traceability behind it are part of the product, not paperwork attached to it. On what that is worth in practice: a cargo whose chain of custody will not survive an audit is worth a fraction of one that will, and the gap is far wider than most sellers expect.
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Category 1, 2 and 3 rendered fats into biodiesel, HVO, oleochemical and feed outlets under ABP rules.
We broker animal fats and tallow across all three ABP categories into biodiesel, renewable diesel, oleochemical and, where the category permits, feed outlets. The first question is never the specification, it is the category under Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009, because that decides which outlets are legally available at all. Only once that is settled do FFA, titre, moisture and impurities decide the price.
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POME oil, spent bleaching earth oil and soapstock acid oil into European producers, with the classification settled first.
We broker POME oil, SBEO and SSAO into European producers. These are three different products from three different places, and they get confused constantly: POME oil comes off palm oil mill effluent, SBEO is recovered from spent bleaching earth, and SSAO is soapstock acid oil from caustic refining. On what decides the value: national classification, more than the specification does. The same parcel can be treated differently in two member states, and that difference is often worth more than anything you can change at the mill.
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Acid oils and esterified acid oils, priced on total fatty acid rather than tonnage, where origin decides the Annex IX position.
Acid oils are the concentrated fatty acid streams that come out of vegetable oil refining, and esterified acid oils are those streams upgraded by esterification into material a biodiesel plant can actually run. Two things govern the trade. Commercially, total fatty acid is the pricing basis, not tonnage: you are buying the usable fraction, not the drum. Regulatory, the origin of the parent oil decides the Annex IX position and therefore much of the value.
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Crude and refined glycerine, where the purity and the MONG figure decide whether you are in the advanced feedstock market or the chemicals market.
We broker crude, technical and refined glycerine between biodiesel producers and the refiners, oleochemical plants and biogas operators who take it. On what decides the price: five numbers, and an offer without them is an enquiry rather than an offer. Glycerol content, water, ash, MONG and residual methanol. On the paperwork, crude glycerine sits in Annex IX Part A, which a surprising number of producers still treat as a disposal problem.
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UCOME, RME, TME and SME, single and double counting ISCC grades, priced on feedstock, CFPP and certification.
We broker FAME biodiesel between producers and blenders, traders and end users. On the standard: EN 14214 is the reference, and quoting EN 15940 instead tells a buyer immediately that you have the wrong product in mind. On what is actually traded, it is the ester plus the sustainability claim behind it: the same litres with and without a defensible chain of custody are two different products at two different prices.
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Renewable diesel and HVO100 into distributors, majors and fleet users, priced on feedstock and certification.
Sustainable Commodities is an independent HVO broker based in the Netherlands, placing renewable diesel and HVO100 between producers, majors, distributors and fleets, FOB ARA or delivered. HVO is a hydrocarbon, not an ester: which is why it behaves so differently from FAME and why the conversation moves so quickly past the specification. Made by hydrotreating vegetable oils, waste oils and fats, it is specified under EN 15940 for paraffinic diesel, and HVO100 can be used neat in approved applications. We broker it between producers, majors, distributors and large fleet users. What is actually being traded is the feedstock and the certificate: two identical litres of EN 15940 fuel can be worth materially different money depending on what they were made from and what the buyer can count.
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Tyre-derived, plastic-derived and biomass pyrolysis oil placed with refiners, steam crackers and carbon black producers.
We broker pyrolysis oil, from the Netherlands, across Europe and beyond: tyre-derived (TPO), plastic-derived (PPO) and biomass pyrolysis oil, into refiners, steam crackers, carbon black producers and industrial fuel users. On what actually decides a deal, it comes down to five numbers and one question. The numbers are chlorine, silicon, sulphur, water and metals. The question is whether your oil is legally a waste or a product, and it catches almost every newcomer. Send us the assay and the monthly tonnage and you will get a straight read, including when the answer is that you are not ready yet.
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Every other market we broker
Six lines is enough, and there is no form to fill in:
No analysis yet? Say so and we will tell you what to ask the lab for.
We tell you which buyers can realistically run your material, what it is likely to clear against, and what is missing from your pack. If you are not ready for the conversation you want to have, you will hear that from us rather than from six buyers in a row.
Inspection, laboratory, freight and the document pack. We make the introduction to forwarders and certification bodies instead of marking up their invoice, so you see the quote they gave. We are paid a commission on business that concludes, which is why we are still there when a discharge analysis comes back wrong.
We are an independent commodity brokerage in Lemmer, the Netherlands. We introduce sellers and buyers in waste-based feedstocks, renewable fuels and recycled polymer feedstocks, and we are paid a commission on concluded business. On feedstocks and fuels we never take title to the cargo and we do not trade on our own book, so neither side is bidding against its own broker. Additives are the one exception: those we also trade for our own account, and we state in which capacity we act before anything is agreed.
Bio feedstocks first: used cooking oil, animal fats and tallow, POME, SBEO, SSAO, food waste oil, fatty acids, acid oils, vegetable and technical oils, crude and refined glycerine and fusel oil. Then the fuels made from them: FAME biodiesel, HVO, bionaphtha, SAF (HEFA-SPK) and co-processed naphtha and kerosene. Alongside those, pyrolysis oil (tyre-derived TPO, plastic-derived PPO and biomass), waste plastics and waste PET. We also place off-spec and distressed cargoes worldwide and help counterparties find tank storage.
Yes. Finding capacity is often what stands between a deal and no deal, particularly for certified or heated storage, and we have long-standing contacts on the terminal side. See storage and logistics.
On feedstocks and fuels, no. There we are a broker and not a trader: we do not take title, we do not hold positions and we do not speculate, because a cargo that fails at discharge costs us the relationship. Additives are the one exception. Those we also buy and sell for our own account, so on additives we may be your counterparty rather than your broker. We tell you which of the two applies before you commit to anything.
We broker from Lemmer in the Netherlands, close to the Amsterdam and Rotterdam hubs where most of this product moves, with colleagues in the Czech Republic, Brazil and Scotland. Business is EU-wide and worldwide.
A brokerage commission on concluded business, agreed in advance and normally carried by one named side. No deal, no fee. Our General Terms & Conditions set out the contracting terms, and they are linked from the footer of every page on this site.
There is no fixed minimum. In practice the floor is set by freight economics into your destination, not by a rule of ours. An isotank of roughly 20 to 25 tonnes works for a trial or a specialty grade, a single container for waste plastics, and full parcel tankers or barges for bulk. If a lot is genuinely too small to move economically we will say so rather than let you find out at the quoting stage.
No, and that is important. We are a broker: the sale contract and the payment run directly between buyer and seller. We never sit in the money flow. Terms are whatever the two sides agree, commonly a letter of credit or cash against documents on first business between new counterparties, moving to open terms as a relationship builds. Anyone in this trade who asks you to pay them as the intermediary is doing something a broker should not do.
Send us the analysis, the volume, where the material sits and whether it is certified. From there we tell you honestly which market you are in, what documentation you will need, and whether the economics work before you spend anything. Most first-time sellers lose money on the paperwork and the classification rather than on the price, and both are cheaper to get right beforehand.
It depends entirely on the product, which is why we have a page for each. Broadly: refiners, biodiesel and HVO producers and SAF producers for feedstocks; steam crackers and polymer producers for circular and bio-based feedstocks; carbon black producers and industrial fuel users for tyre-derived oil; mechanical recyclers and compounders for polymers; oleochemical, feed and chemical buyers for oils, fats and glycerine. Tell us what you have and we will tell you which of those is realistic.
For waste-based feedstock into the biofuel chain: a valid sustainability certificate with the right scope, a proof of sustainability per delivery, a current certificate of analysis and retained samples. For material classified as waste: the shipment documentation the Waste Shipment Regulation requires. For animal by-products: the category and the establishment approval number. Missing one of these is the most common reason a deal that was agreed does not happen.
Same working day in almost all cases. Desk hours are 08:00-18:00 CET Monday to Friday, in English or Dutch. You deal with Bart van den Brug directly, not a call centre. Call +31 6 115 83 448 or email bart@sustainablecommodities.eu.
Yes, and it is one of the things we are asked for most. Speed matters more than anything else once demurrage starts running. See off-spec and distressed cargoes.
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Based in The Netherlands
We broker from the Netherlands, close to the Amsterdam and Rotterdam hubs where most of this product moves. With colleagues in the Czech Republic, Brazil and Scotland and a wide network of partners, we cover the trade worldwide.
Sustainable Commodities 3 B.V.