Finland-headed energy company St1 Nordic Oy (St1) has announced that it is strengthening its waste feedstock business with the acquisition of one of the UK's leading food waste and used cooking oil (UCO) recycling companies. The acquisition will strengthen St1’s value chain further upstream towards feedstock collection and provide feedstocks for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production.
St1 Nordic Oy has acquired 100 percent of Brocklesby Ltd. Established in 1987, Brocklesby is a leading food waste recycling company committed to collection and conversion services, and its expertise lies in recycling edible oils and food fats for a diverse range of end-user industry sectors including biofuels and energy generation.
Strategically located in North Cave, East Yorkshire in close proximity to the Port of Hull, the purpose-built Brocklesby site consists of modern used cooking oil (UCO) recycling plant, food recycling, and anaerobic digestion (AD) plant along with 1 000 m3 bulk storage capacity.
The waste collection is based on strong partnerships with a large number of restaurants, retailers, and food manufacturers throughout the UK, and the collection volumes produce over 46 000 tonnes of output annually.
We are excited to now be part of the energy company St1 Nordic and the opportunities for the future that this delivers to Brocklesby employees, the site, and wider business for its continued future growth. This allows Brocklesby to be part of the whole supply chain from a restaurant collection directly through to the manufacture of sustainable aviation fuel – a truly integrated operation, said Robert Brocklesby, Director of Brocklesby.
St1 reinforces its value chain
According to St1, the acquisition of Brocklesby will strengthen St1’s value chain further upstream towards feedstock collection. It will provide feedstocks for renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production.
A new biorefinery is under construction on the St1 refinery site in Gothenburg, Sweden.
By investing in renewable energy and in the transition of the energy sector while ensuring the necessary cash flow, we are solving global energy challenges for our part, step by step. Entering the sustainable feedstock business in the UK is a concrete step in the consistent and long-term implementation of our growth strategy. At the same time, it strengthens our feedstock sourcing for our own growing renewable fuels production and enables the development of future growth in a new business area. Acquiring Brocklesby is a significant reinforcement of our value chain and results in more and more sustainable feedstocks for our premium energy products that we will serve our customers with, said Henrikki Talvitie, CEO of St1 Nordic Oy.
The biorefinery will have an annual capacity of 200 000 tonnes of renewable fuels production and is expected to commence its operations in 2023. It is designed to optimize the production of renewable diesel and SAF. St1 already produces advanced ethanol and biogas from waste.
I am extremely proud to welcome the people, traditions, and suppliers of Brocklesby to our St1 family. Joining forces will make us stronger going forward in our energy transition roadmap. I am so pleased that Rob will continue in an active role as a board member of Brocklesby, strengthened further with the existing management team, ensuring seamless supplier relationship management together with developing new business opportunities and growth, ended Henrikki Talvitie.
