Facilities

Plants

Cape Town

Brackenfell Site: This site is custom designed to receive used lubricating oils from industry.

Cape Harbour Site: This facility boasts the supply and processing of Marine fuel oil from our storage tanks at the Cape Town Harbour. Our team are fully equipped for import opportunities and strategic storage.

Johannesburg

Chloorkop: Our facility collects and stores Used Lubricating Oils. As part of our service-offering at the Chloorkop facility, we also store and deliver Heavy Fuel Oils and Light Fuel Oils. This site has a H:H Waste Management license which was issued by the Department of Environmental Affairs which enables us to receive various recovered oils including Used Lubricating oils.

Mpumalanga

Evander: Strategically located, this manufacturing facility produces Heavy Fuel oils for large industrial customers. The site also produces Creosote Wood Preservative for the timber treating industry. Our proprietary VOC scrubbing systems and Water Treatment plant ensure we are environmentally compliant.

KwaZulu-Natal

Pietermaritzburg: This manufacturing facility produces Base Oils and Light Distillate Industrial Heating fuels. FFS Base Oil is produced by processing Used Lubricating Oil through our unique manufacturing process which includes a high-pressure hydrotreater and has a quality rating equal to if not better than Group 1 International Base Oil standards.

This site has a Department of Environmental Affairs approved H:H Waste Management Licence which certifies this site to receive and process various oils, including Used Lubricating Oils and other hydrocarbon derived oils. Like many of our other facilities, our facility in Pietermaritzburg has a ISO14001 accreditation.

Durban: This manufacturing facility produces a wide range of Industrial Heating fuels with multiple manufacturing processes tailored to suit our customers specific requirements. In keeping with our high operating standards, this site possesses a H:H Waste Management License from the Department of Environmental Affairs which enables this facility to receive and process various oils. We operate an environmentally compliant site through our VOC scrubbing and odour abatement system and water treatment plant. Like most of our sites and facilities nationally, our Durban branch is ISO14001 accredited.

Storage Tanks

Cape Town Harbour: FFS has a tank farm at Eastern Mole in the Cape Town Harbour with a capacity of 33 000m³.

FFS can provide a 24/7 Gasoil and Heavy Fuel Oil bunkering service to ships berthing at Eastern Mole and Tanker Basin. The site operates in accordance with the ISO 14001 standards.

Evander: FFS has a tank farm adjacent to its manufacturing facility in Evander, Mpumalanga.  The tank farm is strategically located close to some of South Africa’s largest industrial manufacturers. It has an installed capacity of 8500 m3 with an approved EIA for an additional 16000m³.

The site is ISO 14001 accredited.

Depots
FFS has the following ISO 14001 managed depots with DEA approved H:H Waste Management Licences that can receive Waste Oils for storage:

  • Port Elizabeth
  • Brackenfell (Western Cape)

Laboratories

Our technology division and each of our processing plants have laboratories that are equipped to provide monitoring and final quality control to all our processes and products. An ISO9001 based quality management system ensures that analysis is performed with a high level of accuracy and consistency.

Laboratories are equipped to perform the required analysis on each and every product; our lab equipment includes ICP and XRF instruments, auto-viscometers, viscosity baths, ashing ovens, titration and flashpoint devices.

FFS participates in the SABS MAP program; this program regularly monitors and benchmarks our laboratories analysis against oil refinery and commercial laboratories in South Africa.