Blending and additives
Additive requirements, theoretical blend calculation and hand blends with partner laboratories, and sample test analysis. How we handle additives →
We broker waste-based feedstocks, pyrolysis oil, biodiesel and additives. We match the right supply with the right buyer, and get the deal done.
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.
We never take title and we do not trade our own book. We are paid on business that concludes, which is why you will hear it when your parcel is not ready, and why neither side is ever bidding against its own broker.
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.
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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Polyolefin-derived oil into steam crackers and refineries. We are buying light and middle fraction; chlorine decides everything.
We broker plastic pyrolysis oil (PPO) into crackers, refiners and purifiers. On what decides it: chlorine, first and last. A cracker works to single-digit ppm and untreated oil from mixed plastic waste often arrives at hundreds or thousands. Everything between those two numbers is the deal. Silicon is the one people forget, and it is usually missing from the analysis rather than out of range. On fractions, we are buying light and middle for our clients. If you cannot reach cracker grade, that is not the end of it: there is a purification step in between, and it is a different buyer with a different specification.
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End-of-life tyre oil into carbon black, industrial fuel and refinery upgrading. We are buying heavy fraction and non-distilled TPO.
We broker tyre pyrolysis oil (TPO), including heavy fraction and non-distilled material, which is where a lot of the real trade sits. On outlets: the aromatic content that rules TPO out of a steam cracker is exactly what a carbon black producer wants, so being turned down by one does not mean being turned down by the market. On specification, sulphur and chlorine lead, with water and sediment close behind. Tell us the fraction, the assay and the monthly volume, and we will tell you which of the two routes you are actually in.
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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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Post-industrial and post-consumer polyolefins, film, rigids, regrind and pellets, into EU recyclers and pyrolysis feed.
We broker waste plastics into recyclers, chemical recyclers and pyrolysis plants across Europe and on export. On what decides it: a clean, repeatable bale with a moisture figure and actual photographs places quickly, and an unsorted mixed load at any price is now genuinely hard to move. On the rules, the export picture changed materially in 2026 and it changed hardest for the lower grades. Tell us what you have arising monthly and we will tell you where it realistically goes.
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Renewable diesel and HVO100 into distributors, majors and fleet users, priced on feedstock and certification.
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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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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PPD, CFPP improvers, octane boosters, antioxidants, KOH, methanol and the KM32 and NM30 catalysts. Sea or air freight arranged.
We do more than introduce buyers and sellers: we also supply additives and blending chemicals, and it is a real part of what we do rather than a sideline. Cold flow additives such as pour point depressants and CFPP improvers, process chemicals such as potassium hydroxide and methanol, and the two alkoxide catalysts that actually run a biodiesel plant, KM32 and NM30. Where useful we pair that with the theoretical blend calculation and a hand blend tested at a partner laboratory, so the additive is chosen against a measured result rather than a datasheet.
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Every other market we broker
Six lines is usually enough to get started, and there is no form to fill in. Who you are and where you are based, whether you produce, collect or trade, which certification you hold, roughly what you can supply in a month, the delivery basis you prefer, and a recent laboratory analysis.
We ask for the certification and the role early because they decide which buyers are even able to look at your material, so it saves you time as much as us. For pyrolysis oil, chlorine and silicon are the two that matter most; for waste oils, free fatty acid, moisture and impurities. If you do not have an analysis yet, say so and we will tell you what to ask the lab for, that is a normal starting point, not a problem.
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. 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.
Pyrolysis oil (tyre-derived TPO, plastic-derived PPO and biomass), waste plastics, waste PET, used cooking oil, animal fats and tallow, POME, SBEO, SSAO, food waste oil, fatty acids, vegetable and technical oils, crude and refined glycerine, fusel oil, FAME biodiesel, HVO, bionaphtha, SAF (HEFA-SPK) and co-processed naphtha and kerosene. 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.
No. We are a broker, not a trader. We do not take title, we do not hold positions and we do not speculate. Our interest is in a deal that performs on both sides, because a cargo that fails at discharge costs us the relationship.
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.
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 [email protected].
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.
Need to move product, find supply, or get a read on the market? Send a message or call. You deal with me directly, not a call centre.
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.
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