Baltimore Motor Oil Recycling Facility At-A-Glance
Overview – FCC Environmental, one of the world's largest environmental services companies with an expertise in waste oil collection and processing, will invest $50 million for the design and construction of its first state-of-the-art used motor oil recycling facility to be located in Baltimore. The company has plans for additional facilities in other regions of the U.S.
Location – Former Chevron asphalt terminal site in Fairfield in the City of Baltimore, south of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel (I-895).
Amount to be Recycled – At the Baltimore plant, FCC Environmental will recycle 34 million gallons of used motor oil annually back into “base oils” that will be processed and sold as lube oil.
Timing – Plans call for FCC Environmental to break ground by mid 2012 following the issuance of environmental and construction permits.
Jobs – The Baltimore recycling facility, which is expected to create up to 100 jobs during its 12-month construction phase, will provide 30 permanent jobs – many of which will be classified as “green” positions.
Company – FCC Environmental, LLC, headquartered in Houston with 38 branches and terminals throughout an 18 state operation, serving over 30,000 customer locations. It has two locations in Baltimore.
Parent Company – FCC Environmental is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC), one of the world’s largest environmental service providers with headquarters in Madrid, Spain and more than 90,000 employees operating in over 50 countries.
Website – www.FCCenvironmental.com
Motor Oil Recycling in U.S. – Currently more than 1.2 billion gallons of used motor oil are collected in the U.S. every year. Of that number, more than 1 billion gallons are either burned for fuel in industrial furnaces and cement kilns, or disposed of illegally.
That means 1 billion gallons of virgin base oil must be produced each year to meet consumer demand for motor oils and other lubricating oils, with most of the crude oil coming from overseas.
Though it is considered commonplace in other parts of the world, the U.S. currently has the capacity to recycle only approximately 150 million gallons of that amount back into base oil each year.