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FCC has gone one step further in its com-
mitment to collect and treat used oil in the
US. Its US subsidiary, FCC Environmental,
will spend 50 million dollars (around 35 mi-
llion euro) to build its frst motor oil recycling
plant. FCC plans to build several of these
plants in the United States.
This facility, which will be located in Balti-
more (Maryland), is part of FCC Group’s
international expansion strategy, which in-
cludes development of the environmental
services business in the US. These plans
will be reinforced by what will be the frst
recycling plant for this type of oil on the east
coast of the US.
The facility will be situated in an already
industrialised site, previously used as an
asphalt terminal. The site is easily acces-
sible to Interstate highways as well as ca-
pable of handling both rail and barge shi-
pments.
“The U.S. lube oil industry has accepted re-
refned base stock when it is of consistent
quality, reliably supplied and competitively
priced,” said Kenneth Cherry, executive
vice president and general manager of FCC
Environmental. “The Baltimore recycling fa-
FCC to build the frst base lube
cility will produce several cuts of base lube,
as well as other high value co-products.”
The base oil obtained as a result of refning
and recycling used oil at the new FCC Envi-
ronmental plant in Baltimore will be sold and
transported off-site via trucks and rail to be
processed into diesel motor oils, transmis-
sion fuids and other lubricating products
that meet or exceed industry standards and
specifcations. The fnished product will be
returned to its original state, once the addi-
tive packages are blended offsite, as crank-