The Klean Group
Klean Group
Behind Klean Fuels is the Klean Group — a family-owned operator across the full waste-to-value chain.
The Klean Group is a family-owned group built on one proposition: materials the economy discards still carry recoverable energy, carbon and value, and recovering them properly is an engineering discipline, not a slogan. Its companies address different points on that chain and share engineering, project delivery and commercial capability rather than operating as separate brands under a holding structure.
Why the group structure matters to a buyer
Industrial waste projects are rarely single-technology problems. A plastics project has a residue stream; a tire project produces oil, steel and carbon black, each with a different market; a municipal waste project has fractions that suit thermal treatment and fractions that do not. A supplier selling one process shapes the project around it; a group engineering across pyrolysis, gasification, waste-to-energy and materials recovery shapes the solution around the feedstock and the offtake. Family ownership adds continuity: decisions on a project horizon rather than a quarterly one, which matters when an asset must run for decades and the engineering judgement bought is institutional.
What the group covers
Plastic pyrolysis and plastic-to-fuel. Waste and scrap plastic converted into pyrolysis oil and diesel-range fuel through continuous liquefaction — the work this site describes, with projects across North America, Europe and Asia.
Tire pyrolysis and recovered carbon black. End-of-life tire processing into recovered carbon black, pyrolysis oil and steel, the group's deepest technical area.
Waste-to-energy and solid waste. Advanced thermal treatment, gasification and energy-from-waste facilities converting municipal and commercial residues into electricity, steam and heat.
Pyrolysis oil and low-carbon fuels. Upgrading and co-processing pyrolysis oil into marine fuels, low-carbon fuels and asphalt applications.
Digital and traceability. KleanLoop, the group's blockchain and SaaS work, addresses the chain-of-custody problem that increasingly determines whether recovered materials can be sold as recycled content.
How the group works with clients
Engagement is gated. Independent feasibility studies and technical due diligence come first, because the most valuable service an engineering group provides is an honest answer about whether a project works. Where it does, the group moves into design and engineering, then turn-key design-build-commission delivery; where a client already owns an underperforming facility, into efficiency upgrades and owner's engineering. Energy and waste audits, carbon intensity management and supply chain services support those projects. The group builds operating assets, not demonstrations, and publishes its track record project by project.
Industrial and Technology Companies
- Klean Industries is an environmentally conscious industrial energy company focused on renewable energy, resource-recovery and recycling solutions, specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of advanced thermal treatment facilities using carbonization, liquefaction, pyrolysis and gasification technologies.
- Klean Power is focused on the upcoming Waste to Energy project in Vancouver, partnering with Plenary Group and Corix to deliver a state-of-the-art integrated waste processing facility based on a commercially proven technology platform.
- Klean Fuels uses a plastics-to-oil technology known as pyrolysis to convert a wide variety of waste plastics into ASTM spec grade liquid fuels.
- Klean Carbon produces CBk-EX®, CBk-RX® and CBk-SX® carbon black reinforcing fillers that can fully or partially replace N300, N600 and N700 series conventional carbon blacks.
- Klean Coal develops alternative fuel projects based on low grade coals using technologies that are environmentally sound, commercially proven and in use on a large scale around the globe.
- Klean Energy is a project based on a new and improved technology platform for heavy oil production, upgrading and in-situ developments in Alberta's oil sands.
- Klean Hydrogen converts end-of-life tires, plastics and municipal waste into green hydrogen, co-produced at every facility with on-site refuelling and fuel-cell truck logistics.
- Klean Biochar produces carbon-negative biochar from biomass pyrolysis for agricultural soils and carbon-removal markets.
- Klean Graphene produces advanced nanocarbon materials — graphene, carbon nanotubes and fullerenes — recovered from waste tires for battery, composite and electronics applications.
- Klean Gasification converts municipal and industrial waste into clean syngas and renewable energy through advanced gasification.
- Klean Graphite supplies high-purity graphite and conductive carbon for battery anode, lubricant and industrial applications.
- Klean Loop provides the tire-recycling traceability layer, recording every tire through the TyreNova process so recovered carbon black, oil and steel can be verified end to end.
Capital, Services and Resources
- Klean Capital is an active investor in the property, waste management, energy storage, renewables, cleantech and green technology sector, offering project financing, private equity, trade finance, PPP funding and venture capital.
- Klean Consulting is the management consulting arm of Klean Industries, a leading resource recovery and sustainability consultancy guiding research, strategy, policy development and action plans.
- Klean Commodities manufactures, distributes, imports and exports sustainable high grade commodities and chemical raw materials.
- Klean Water provides commercially proven water treatment technologies for the oil and gas, mining and municipal sectors.
- Klean Oils is the exclusive importer and exporter of the patented ECO-Klean (Lube) Oil Dialysis Technology, which eliminates the need for oil changes.
- Klean Recycling recycles used electronics, recovering gold, silver, platinum and palladium along with plastics and additional metals for reuse.
- Klean Travel offers personalised travel services that are carbon neutral, offset with certified carbon offsets at no extra cost to travellers.
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One Group, the Whole Waste-to-Value Chain
Industrial waste projects rarely fit a single technology. Engineering across plastic pyrolysis, tire pyrolysis, recovered carbon black, gasification and waste-to-energy means the solution can be shaped around the feedstock and the offtake rather than around whatever a vendor happens to sell.
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