Quatra

Quatra is a family company with more than 50 years' experience in recycling used frying fats and oils. The name Quatra belongs to the company previously known as Atravet, which was founded in 1984 with the specific aim of collecting and recycling used frying fats. After taking over the companies Vetboerke - Biorecup (France), Biovet (only French customers) and Van Wijk & Olthuis (only Belgian customers), Ecoson (Belgium), the name Atravet was changed to Quatra in 2014. In the meantime, Quatra has built up a market share of more than 65% of the market for collecting and processing used frying oil in Belgium and Northern France. In 2011 we moved to our new site in Lokeren in Belgium. Here we built a state-of-the-art factory where we process the fats in the most environmentally friendly, economical and labour-friendly possible way to create a basic raw material for the production of biodiesel. We collect the fat ourselves from our 20,000 customers. We believe it is important to deal with the entire process ourselves so that we can guarantee good service and great flexibility. Most of the fat we collect is taken directly to our site in Lokeren. To improve our service in certain regions, we do use depots. Quatra has depots in Mechelen (new depot under construction), Liege, Paris, Metz (F) and Troyes (F). Our many years of experience have taught us that you do not grow just by offering your customers great service: you also need to keep your prices very competitive. To guarantee our customers the best prices, we are constantly in search of new ways of improving our process. Besides ensuring a close network and good routing for our core process (recycling frying fat), we also do this by offering a wider range of services to our existing customers. This is why we started delivering fresh frying fats to our own customers in 2010. By combining deliveries with collections, we were able to save on transport costs and cut our prices.