Name

Jebro

Legal name

Jebro, Inc.

Website

https://jebro.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Petroleum Recycling and Asphalt Manufacturing Services

NAICS

Petroleum Lubricating Oil and Grease Manufacturing (324191), Petroleum Bulk Stations and Terminals (424710), Petroleum and Petroleum Products Merchant Wholesalers (except Bulk Stations and Terminals) (424720), All Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing (324199)

SIC

Wholesale-Petroleum & Petroleum Products (No Bulk Stations) (5172), Wholesale-Petroleum Bulk Stations & Terminals (5171), Miscellaneous Products Of Petroleum & Coal (2990)

akta.pro primary industry

Used Oil, Lubricants & Industrial Fluids Recovery/Recycling (IMAIAFAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Used Oil & Oily Waste Management (Collection, Re-refining, Disposal) (BPALAFAI), Base Oil Production & Supply (Group I–V, Re-refined) (EUALAJAA), Lubricants, Fluids & Chemical Products Distribution (Oils, Coolants, AdBlue/DEF, Cleaners) (TLAKAOAL)

Keywords

• Used oil recycling
• Asphalt manufacturing
• Heavy fuel distribution
• Petroleum waste collection
• Industrial recycling services

Headquarters

HQ city

Sioux City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Used Oil Collection and Recycling Services: Jebro collects used oil products from customers using a fleet of vacuum trucks (3,000 gallons), tankers (7,000 gallons), and railcars (25,000 gallons). Services include collection, transportation, and recycling with full EPA compliance documentation.
2. Asphalt Sales: Sale of performance-graded asphalt, cutback asphalt, and emulsified asphalt for road construction and maintenance industries. Products are supplied to contractors and public agencies from four manufacturing terminals.
3. Heavy Fuels Sales: Sale of heavy fuel oils including RFO5L, RFO5H, #5 Fuel Oil, #6 Fuel Oil, and Burner Fuel for hot plants and industrial burners. Products are used primarily for hot mix asphalt pavement production.
4. Petroleum Recovery Division: Collection and recycling of diesel fuel, heavy fuels, antifreeze, and oil filters. Services are provided to handle reclamation projects regardless of size or contamination level.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Jebro collects and recycles used petroleum products — including motor oil, hydraulic fluid, transmission and gearbox oils, transformer oil, oil filters, antifreeze, diesel fuel, and heavy fuel oils — using vacuum trucks, tankers, and railcars, with full EPA compliance documentation. The company also manufactures and sells performance-graded, cutback, and emulsified asphalt as well as heavy fuel oils (RFO5L, RFO5H, #5 and #6 fuel oil, burner fuel) from four terminals in Sioux City IA, Corson SD, Cheyenne WY, and Waco TX, supplying contractors, public agencies, and industrial burner operators across the Midwest and Mountain West.

Product overview

Jebro operates as a used oil collection and recycling company, combined with an asphalt and fuel sales division. The collection and recycling services include used oil, oil filters, antifreeze, diesel fuel, and heavy fuels—all collected via a fleet of vacuum trucks, tankers, and railcars and processed at company facilities. The asphalt and fuel sales division manufactures and distributes asphalt materials (performance graded, cutback, and emulsified asphalt) and heavy fuels from four terminal locations in Sioux City, IA, Corson, SD, Cheyenne, WY, and Waco, TX. The company serves Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Colorado for recycling services, with additional coverage for parts of Illinois, Montana, Minnesota, Kansas, and Missouri.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Used Oil Collection & Recycling Collection and recycling service for used oil products including motor oil, hydraulic fluid, fuel oil, transmission and gearbox oils, and transformer oil. Pickup and transport are performed using vacuum trucks (3,000 gallons), tankers (7,000 gallons), and railcars (25,000 gallons), with full EPA compliance documentation.
• Oil Filter Collection & Recycling Collection service for used oil filters using 55-gallon drums provided for storage, with 2-3 gallons of used oil recovered per drum. Filters are collected on a scheduled or unscheduled basis to prevent used oil from entering landfills.
• Antifreeze Collection & Recycling Collection service for antifreeze in nearly any amount, handling both ethylene-based and propylene glycol-based products from small 55-gallon drums to large 2,400-gallon quantities, with bill-of-lading documentation.
• Diesel Fuel Collection & Recycling Recycling service for spent diesel fuel, handling old, wet, off-spec, or contaminated diesel fuel including from oil spills. Collection and transportation are conducted in compliance with state and federal regulations regardless of contamination level.
• Heavy Fuels Collection & Recycling Collection service for Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) storage tanks for inspections or decommissioning, handling #5 and #6 fuel reclamation regardless of sulfur content, with 100% of collected heavy fuels recycled.
• Performance Graded Asphalt Asphalt binders specified by the Superpave (Superior Performing Asphalt Pavements) system with performance-based specifications for high and low temperature extremes, including PG 58-28 through PG 76-28 grades and variants (S, H, V, E), supplied to contractors and public agencies.
• Cutback Asphalt Asphalt cement blended with petroleum solvent, available in rapid-curing (RC 800, RC 3000, RC 800R, RC 3000R), medium-curing (MC 70, MC 800, MC 3000, MC 800R, MC 3000R), and slow-curing types for road construction and maintenance.
• Emulsified Asphalt Mixture of asphalt cement, water, and emulsifying agent that is liquid at ambient temperatures, available in cationic emulsions (CRS-2, CSS-1, CSS-1H, CRS-2P, CRS-2L) and anionic emulsions (AE-150S, AE-200S, HFE-150, HFE-300, HFE-1000, HFMS-2P, HFMS-2).
• Heavy Fuels Sales Heavy fuel oils for hot plants and industrial burners available year-round by truck or rail, including RFO5L, RFO5H, #5 Fuel Oil, #6 Fuel Oil, and Burner Fuel, with custom formulations available to meet specific sulfur, ash, and viscosity specifications.

Quantifiable outcome

• 100% of heavy fuels collected are recycled
• +2 more outcomes

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• NORA Association of Responsible RecyclerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJebro is a member of the NORA Association of Responsible Recyclers. NORA is an association for the used oil recycling and re-refining industry. Membership indicates commitment to responsible recycling practices and industry standards.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Clean Harbors (Safety-Kleen): Clean Harbors owns the Safety-Kleen brand, the largest North American used oil collection and re-refining network, providing direct overlap with Jebro's motor oil, hydraulic fluid, and industrial fluid recovery services across overlapping industrial customer bases.
• Heritage-Crystal Clean: Heritage-Crystal Clean operates one of the largest U.S. used oil collection and re-refining businesses alongside antifreeze and parts-cleaning services, directly mirroring Jebro's combination of used oil/antifreeze collection with petroleum product sales.
• Safety-Kleen (legacy brand reference): Safety-Kleen operates as the dedicated environmental services brand within Clean Harbors, running the largest U.S. network of used oil and parts washer routes; the most direct head-to-head competitor for Jebro's vacuum-truck-based used oil collection routes.

Emerging players

• Vertex Energy: Vertex Energy operates used oil re-refining and recovered fuel sales (including marine fuel oil) across the U.S., with overlapping interest in heavy fuel streams and re-refined base oils that Jebro's Petroleum Recovery Division touches.

Regional players

• Petroleum Traders Corporation: Petroleum Traders is a regional wholesale distributor of lubricants, antifreeze, and petroleum products serving industrial and commercial accounts, comparable to Jebro's distribution of heavy fuels and antifreeze collection/recycling services.
• Quarles Petroleum: Quarles Petroleum delivers fuel, lubricants, and petroleum products to commercial and industrial customers across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, comparable to Jebro's regional fuel distribution and lubricant/fluid recovery model.

Others

• Brenntag North America: Brenntag is the world's largest chemical and petroleum products distributor, handling lubricants, antifreeze, and specialty fluids at scale; relevant as an upstream/downstream distributor adjacent to Jebro's petroleum product flows.

Broad incumbents

• Knife River Corporation: Knife River Corporation is Jebro's parent and a major U.S. construction materials and asphalt producer, providing structural context for Jebro's asphalt and heavy fuel product lines and the parent's diversified industrial portfolio.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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