The first ISCC EU-certified company in the Philippines. We are the country's largest fully legal UCO collector and treater — providing fully traceable, regulation-ready waste management for restaurants, hotels, and food manufacturers.
For over a century and a half, the name behind Sollesta-Nielsen has been synonymous with the hard work of building — ships that crossed oceans, chemicals that powered industry, dams that tamed rivers, and infrastructure that lifted nations.
Ours is not a story of trading floors and ledgers. It is a story of steel and soil. Of Scandinavian engineers standing knee-deep in Brazilian clay. Of turbines spinning in North African gorges. Of a restless European ambition to go where the work is difficult and do it properly.
Today, that legacy lives in the Philippines — over 150 years of European expertise, applied to the frontiers of sustainability.
Established in Northern Europe as a maritime trading enterprise — moving raw materials across the Baltic and North Sea during the age of industrial expansion. The waters were cold; the ambition was not.
Expanded into shipbuilding and marine engineering. Iron hulls took shape in Northern dockyards — vessels that would carry cargo across the Atlantic and into emerging trade routes around the world.
Entered industrial chemical production — refining, processing, and supplying the raw inputs that fueled Europe's manufacturing boom. Factories hummed through two world wars, keeping supply lines alive.
Designed and constructed hydroelectric facilities across North Africa — harnessing rivers in unforgiving terrain to deliver power to regions that had never known it. Concrete and turbine, precision and patience. Engineering at the edge of the possible.
Brought European engineering to South America. Roads cut through jungle. Bridges spanned rivers that had no crossings. Civil works across Brazil — building the backbone of a developing nation's modern economy, one pour of concrete at a time.
As the world turned toward sustainability, so did we — redirecting 150 years of industrial expertise toward biomass, waste-to-energy, and the circular economy. The same hands that built dams now build supply chains for a decarbonized future.
Sollesta-Nielsen Corporation becomes the first ISCC EU-certified company and the largest legal UCO collector and treater in the Philippines. European heritage and precision, deployed where it matters most.
From scheduled collection at your site to treatment at our facility — we handle every step under one chain of custody, ensuring your waste oil becomes certified feedstock for the global biofuel industry.
Scheduled UCO pickup from restaurants, hotels, QSRs, and food manufacturers across the Philippines. DENR-compliant transport with full documentation.
Processing at our TSD facility — filtration, dewatering, and quality control to meet ISCC EU feedstock specifications for certified biomass.
Treated UCO prepared to ISCC EU sustainability standards — fully traceable, audit-ready feedstock input for biofuel and renewable energy applications.
We were the first company in the Philippines to earn ISCC EU certification — and we remain the country's largest fully legal UCO collector and treater. Most generators don't know where their oil ends up. We give you a paper trail that holds up to EU regulatory scrutiny, from pickup manifest to export bill of lading.
Our working philosophy is grounded in the principles of Lean Manufacturing — with people as the engine of development and continuous improvement as a daily discipline rather than an annual initiative. We work to maximise value and eliminate waste in every process, and we believe the capacity to do that lives in the people closest to the work.
Of the eight, the third is the one most companies never address. A tank that sits idle is visible. A capable operator whose judgement is never asked for is not.
At SNC we adopt Lean not merely as a methodology for optimising processes and reducing waste, but as a philosophy that places people at the centre. We believe the real potential for continuous improvement lies in developing the character and talents of our team.
We invest in the personal and professional growth of our people, cultivating an environment where each individual can move beyond their own limits. Skills matrices track competency by operator and station — not to rank people, but to show them a path. Training is scheduled, recorded, and built around the work they actually do.
This is how we combine operational efficiency with a human commitment that drives both the company and its people toward higher standards each day.
Small, documented improvements made continuously by the people doing the work. Every operator is invited to improve the process they own — and expected to be heard when they do.
Sort, set in order, shine, standardise, sustain. Audited on a fixed cadence and scored — because a facility that is visibly in order is one where problems are visible too.
Decisions are made at the gemba — where the work happens — not from a spreadsheet. Leadership walks the plant and the routes on a standing schedule.
Quality is built in at each stage, not inspected at the end. Any operator can stop a batch. A problem caught at intake costs a fraction of one caught at the port.
Route density and scheduling improve continuously. A missed pickup is treated as a defect with a root cause — not as an unavoidable cost of operating across an archipelago.
Every handling step is an opportunity to lose product. Standardised work at intake, treatment, and loading keeps recovery high and variance low.
Standard work means records are generated by the process, not reconstructed afterwards. ISCC EU and DENR documentation holds up because it was never assembled retrospectively.
Waste removed from our operation is cost that does not need to be recovered from yours. Lean is why our terms and our service hold steady.
Lean Manufacturing was built for factories making cars. Applying it to used cooking oil collection across seven thousand islands required translation rather than imitation.
Our leadership runs a Leader Standard Work cadence — defined daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly routines that bring problems to the surface early instead of letting them accumulate quietly.
Most of this is invisible to a customer on an ordinary day. It becomes visible on a difficult one — when a vehicle fails, a shipment is queried, or a regulator asks a question that requires an answer within the hour.
It is also why we hold ISO 9001:2015 alongside our ISCC EU certification. One governs how consistently we work; the other governs what we may claim about it.
Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao — SNC operates collection routes spanning all three island groups, anchored by our DENR-licensed treatment facility in Iloilo. One operator, one chain of custody, nationwide.
Every litre collected anywhere in the country is documented, transported, and treated under a single DENR-licensed chain of custody — no subcontracted collectors, no gaps in the paper trail.
Philippine-sourced feedstock, moving into a certified international network. Our partner and offtake relationships span Europe, Southeast Asia, and North America — built on ISCC EU chain of custody and a Danish industrial lineage that predates the industry itself. Counterparties are named only under NDA.
A lean process built around documentation, speed, and regulatory compliance at every handoff.
Site assessment, volume estimation, and service agreement. We register your facility in our ISCC mass balance system.
Scheduled pickup by DENR-permitted haulers. Weigh-in, sampling, and manifest generated on-site.
Received at our TSD. Filtered, dewatered, tested for FFA and moisture. Stored in certified tanks — audit-ready and fully traceable.
Whether you're producing 200 liters a month or 20,000 — we'll build a collection schedule that works for your operation.
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