Vegetable and technical oil brokerage

Almost always because of the cap rather than the quality. Food and feed crop oils are limited to 7 % of transport energy under the Renewable Energy Directive, and further capped at the member state's 2020 share plus one percentage point. Volume above the cap has no mandate value. The oil is fine; the bucket is full.

High ILUC-risk palm oil is frozen at 2019 levels and phases down to zero by 2030, so a term position built on it has a known end date. Material certified as low ILUC-risk is exempt from the phase-down, but it still sits inside the 7 % cap. The certification buys you time, not headroom.

The EU Deforestation Regulation requires proof that certain commodities, palm and soy among them, did not come from land deforested after the cut-off date, with geolocation data for the plots. If your oil is in scope, that evidence has to exist before a European buyer can place it, and assembling it after the fact is much harder than collecting it as you go.

FFA, moisture and impurities, peroxide value and colour as standard. For anything going to a hydrotreater, add phosphorus and metals, because those govern catalyst life rather than product quality. See parameters explained. The assay is rarely what takes the time; proving where the oil came from is.

Soapstock is the alkaline by-product of chemical refining. Acid oil is what you get when soapstock is acidulated, concentrating the fatty acids. PFAD, palm fatty acid distillate, comes from the physical refining of palm oil and is a distillate rather than an acidulation product. All three price on total fatty acid content rather than on tonnage, and all three carry their own questions about feedstock status under EU renewable fuel rules.

From 30 December 2026 for large operators and traders, and 30 June 2027 for micro and small operators, following the postponement agreed in December 2025. The due diligence obligation sits primarily with whoever first places the product on the EU market. The practical bottleneck is plot-level geolocation data, which has to exist in the chain already. Verify against the current Official Journal text before contracting.

We can, but the majority of what we place is technical grade, non-food grade or a refining side stream heading into oleochemical, feed or energy outlets. That is where our buyer network is genuinely strong. If you have food-grade oil to place we will say plainly whether we are the right broker for it.

DCO is the corn oil extracted from the stillage in dry-mill bioethanol production. It is a non-food co-product with a favourable feedstock classification in several renewable fuel regimes, which makes it attractive to biodiesel and renewable diesel producers. Sulphur, moisture and FFA are the parameters buyers screen on, particularly where the oil is going into hydrotreatment.

FOSFA forms are standard for bulk vegetable oil in Europe, with the specific form depending on origin, oil and shipment basis. Quality and condition are settled by independent superintendents at load and discharge with sealed retained samples on both sides. Our own General Terms & Conditions govern the brokerage itself, not the underlying sale contract; they are linked from the footer of every page on this site.

Yes. Flexitank and ISO tank lots of roughly 20 to 25 tonnes are routine, and drums or IBCs work for specialty and technical grades. Below about a full container, freight usually dominates the economics, and we will say so rather than let you find out at the quoting stage.