Who we are
At LIPSA we are the leader in vegetable oils and fats for food, animal feed, technical applications and biofuels.
Our facilities have the most advanced technology and a team committed to the philosophy and principles of LIPSA. We work to meet the most demanding standards and confront the challenges and demands of the market and our clients, providing practical, innovative and efficient solutions. Always with safety and sustainability as the pillars of all our operations.
Our values
- Commitment
- Teamwork
- Reliability
- Technology
- Sustainability
- Perseverance
Mission
To be a leading group in our market, fulfilling all our commitments with our employees, clients, suppliers and shareholders in a safe and effective way.
Vision
Acquire the highest level of efficiency and competitiveness, through continuous improvement of our products and services, with the aim of achieving recognition and market leadership.
Our philosophy
Personalised customer service and tailor-made products
Broad portfolio of products
Extensive experience with technical and sales support
Flexibility in terms of logistics and production
Client training sessions
A global company
Our strategic location is perfect for receiving the best raw materials from all over the world and sell our products on all five continents.
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- Imports
Exports (countries)
- Spain
- Portugal
- France
- Italy
- Morocco
- Libya
- New Zealand
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Turkey
- Belgium
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- Thailand
- Tunisia
- Ireland
- South Korea
- Australia
- Denmark
- Israel
- Malaysia
- United Kingdom
- Hong Kong
- Poland
- Hungary
- United States
- Austria
- Greece
- Czech Republic
- Philippines
- Saudi Arabia
- Singapore
- Malta
- Lebanon
- India
- Brazil
- Sweden
- Mexico
- Egypt
- Ecuador
- Jordan
- Cyprus
- Peru
- Ukraine
- Indonesia
- Georgia
- Bulgaria
- Belarus
- Nigeria
Imports (countries)
- Colombia
- Argentina
- Guatemala
- Honduras
- Costa Rica
- Malaysia
- Indonesia
- Philippines
- Gabon
- Ivory Coast
- Spain
- Portugal
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Netherlands
- Bulgaria
- Romania
- Moldova
- Ukraine
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Our history
LIPSA starts its activity in Barcelona
Antonio Soler Aymerich (father) and Antonio Soler Soler (son) set up the company Lípidos Santiga S.A. and acquire the land in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda where the main refinery and headquarters of the LIPSA group are located today. The refining of animal fats and their fractions, obtained by fractionation with hexane, begins. The first refining equipment was discontinuous with a capacity of 20 tonnes per day.
First physical refinery and hydrogenation plant for animal and tropical fats
The first continuous refinery is built, which, in addition to considerably increasing the plant's capacity to 120 tonnes per day and reducing energy costs by more than half, enabled the physical refining of refined animal and tropical fats.
First blends for infant nutrition
After the entry into the European Union (1986) and the harmonization of the oil tariff policy (1990), LIPSA improves its competitiveness and starts exporting the first blends for infant nutrition.
Deodorizing and bleaching capacity is doubled
We doubled our deodorization and bleaching capacity across LIPSA's operations.
We join the RSPO
Our company joined the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and later became one of the first player to import segregated palm and palm kernel oil. In the same year, we also invested in our fractionation plant.
LIPSA opens a new refinery: Huelva
LIPSA extends its operations to Huelva, where it inaugurates its second refinery. After 20 years of growth at the Santa Perpètua de Mogoda plant (1990-2010), reaching a capacity of 600,000 tonnes per year, we inaugurate a new plant in the port of Huelva with an initial capacity of 250,000 tonnes per year. We began exporting liquid oil in flexitanks.
First sales of low 3-MCPD oils
We made the first sales of low 3-MCPD oils to our clients.
Sales and exports record
LIPSA exceeds 600,000 mt in sales of refined oils and exports over 170,000 mt.
Revolutionising industry with proprietary technology
LIPSA becomes the first and only European company to solve the biggest refining waste: bleaching earth. Using proprietary technology, we managed to extract the oil trapped in these soils, resulting in Spent Bleaching Earth Oil (SBEO). During this year we had the inauguration of the SBEO extraction plant in Barcelona. The Huelva plant is transformed for the pre-treatment of raw materials for the biofuels industry
Expansion of the Huelva refinery
We extend the advanced biofuel feedstock pre-treatment capacity of our Huelva refinery to 1,100,000 tonnes per year, making it the largest plant of its kind in Europe.
