Salem Plant Turning More Cooking Oil into Biodiesel than Ever

November 06, 2019

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by Pete Danko (Portland Business Journal) SeQuential, the Oregon company that collects used cooking oil and turns it into biodiesel, has boosted production capacity at its Salem plant by 30 percent. It credited a state program with helping drive increased demand.

Output has been growing every year since the southeast Salem plant began operating in 2008, and capacity was now up to 12 million gallons annually, Sequential said Tuesday. A recent expansion included storage, blending and loading upgrades.

SeQuential was acquired a year ago by Crimson Renewable Energy, a Denver-headquartered company that has major operations in Bakersfield, California.

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Through its own acquisitions, SeQuential was already collecting grease from restaurants and businesses from Washington to the Bay Area. After the Crimson deal, it moved into Los Angeles and Orange counties and now collects from nearly 20,000 customers, the company said. READ MORE

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