Finnish Neste Oil launches renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam

English.news.cn   2011-09-21

HELSINKI, Sept. 20 (Xinhua) -- Finnish Neste Oil Corporation has started up Europe's largest renewable diesel plant in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, according to a press release of the company on Tuesday.

With its current capacity of 800,000 tons per year (t/a), the Rotterdam plant will help increase Neste Oil's total renewable diesel capacity to 2 million.

"We are very proud of the new plant in Rotterdam," said the Nest Oil's President and CEO Matti Lievonen in the statement. "It will help us meet demand in the European market, the world's largest for renewable diesel."

According to the press release, the plant can make use of almost any vegetable oil or waste fat in the production of premium-quality renewable diesel utilizing Neste Oil's proprietary NExBTL technology.

The plant employs approximately 150 people, with 110 Neste Oil employees and 40 service provider personnel.

Editor: yan