Tuero, an environmental services company specializing in the circular economy in the Iberian Peninsula, has implemented its new by-product recovery plant in Oliveira de Azeméis.
From this new factory, Tuero will serve its customers in managing their by-products, transforming food waste unfit for human consumption into high-quality raw materials with high nutritional value for the manufacture of animal feed.
This plant in Portugal, employing nine people, is currently operating at maximum capacity 24 hours a day, seven days a week, allowing Tuero to strengthen its position in the Iberian market, as well as maintain its commitment to suppliers and customers and continue service after the fire that devastated its by-product recovery plant in Venta de Baños (Palencia) last October. “ We are very pleased to have our new plant in Oliveira de Azeméis already operational. Our team made a great effort to implement this new plant in Portugal in the shortest possible time and thus continue our commitments to customers and suppliers ,” says Jorge Montero, director of Tuero.
Factory in Palencia
By the end of this year, Tuero will have yet another new factory, this time in Venta de Baños (Palencia), whose construction is already underway and which will feature the latest technology in by-product management.
When both plants are operational, Tuero will serve its customers in Portugal and Galicia from the factory in Oliveira de Azeméis, in the Porto region, and will manage service to the rest of its Spanish customers from Palencia (Spain).
The economic investment in both power plants amounts to approximately 20 million euros.
Three lines of business
Tuero provides services in three different business lines. On the one hand, to companies in the food industry through the valorization of by-products, managing their waste, such as losses from production processes or products with packaging defects, transforming them into biscuit flour, a high-quality raw material with high nutritional value intended for the manufacture of animal feed.
Furthermore, it has a biogas plant, where it transforms byproducts unsuitable for animal feed into biogas and fertilizer for farmland; and a third line, dedicated to the integrated management of environmental services to boost and support companies in achieving the goal of zero waste.
Tuero thus helps companies meet their social, environmental and economic sustainability commitments by managing the waste from their production processes into new raw materials and supporting the process of transforming their factories into zero-waste plants.
