Extracte Lur will retrofit a former biodiesel plant to produce renewable diesel in Spain



Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.

According to Navarra Capital, the company Extracte Lur has acquired the biodiesel plant that Acciona had in Caparroso (Navarra, Spain) and has signed a strategic agreement with a major oil company (the name has not been disclosed) for the production of HVO (also called renewable diesel) in that facility. Extract Lur has taken control of the Acciona plant, which remained closed since 2013 due to the convulsions of the biodiesel market and the existing uncertainties about the future of automotive fuels, with the aim of converting it into a modern biorefinery. In Spain, both Cepsa and Repsol have been producing hydrobiodiesel in several of their refineries for years. But, this would be the first biorefinery dedicated specifically to the production of renewable diesel.
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Extract Lur is owned by Oleofat (company located in the Ciudad Agroalimentaria de Tudela, specialized in the management and treatment of oleic waste and its subsequent recovery for the chemical industry) and other entrepreneurs in the olive sector. Currently, Extracte Lur is the only company in Spain that produces pharmaceutical grade vegetable glycerin. So far, it has already committed all its production and the firm is even studying an expansion project.

Figure 1. Former biodiesel plant of Acciona in Caparroso. Extracte Lur will retrofit it to produce renewable diesel.

These are the first available data about the biorefinery:
Location
Caparroso (Navarre, Spain).
Investiment
2.5 M€ (retrofitting of the existing facilities).
Feedstocks
Frying oils and vegetable oils with high acidity.
Product and production capacity
36,000 tons/year of HVO.
Employment effect
The start-up of the new biorefinery has led to the creation of 18 jobs, although, according to the promoters estimate, it will reach a figure of 25 jobs distributed in the different areas of the plant.

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