Oreco

What Oreco does

Oreco is a privately held Danish for-profit company headquartered in Lynge, Denmark, with a headcount of 11–50 employees. According to the firmographic data, the company designs and delivers automated, non-man entry tank cleaning and oil recovery solutions, engineered to operate at the highest levels of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) performance. Its offering addresses industrial cleaning of storage tanks where conventional manned entry poses unacceptable human and environmental risk, positioning the firm in a specialized industrial services niche.

The publicly available information about Oreco is materially thin. The company's own website (oreco.com) returned only a loader/verification page rather than substantive company content, and no product specifications, pricing model, customer list, certifications, patents, partnerships, management team, funding history, or revenue figures are disclosed in the supplied sources. One referenced article discusses the global modular mobile substation market — an adjacent but distinct industrial sector — and does not mention Oreco by name; its scale commentary therefore cannot be reliably attributed to Oreco's tank cleaning business.

As a result, Oreco's exact product architecture, go-to-market motion, revenue mechanics, and competitive positioning within the tank cleaning and oil recovery services industry cannot be verified from the input data. Any deeper technical, commercial, or financial characterization should be treated as unverified absent direct first-party disclosure from the company.

Name

Oreco

Website

https://oreco.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Oreco is a privately held Danish company (11–50 employees, based in Lynge) that provides automated, non-man entry tank cleaning and oil recovery solutions for industrial clients, emphasizing high environmental, health, and safety standards.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Tank Cleaning & Oil Recovery Services

SIC

Specialty Cleaning, Polishing And Sanitation Preparations (2842)

akta.pro primary industry

Maintenance Lubrication & Oil Handling Equipment (Greasing, Dispensing, Used Oil) (IMAHALAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Hazardous Waste Recycling & Recovery (Solvent Recovery, Oil Re-refining, Metals Recovery) (EUAIAFAI), Tank Cleaning, Gas-Freeing & Class/Safety Compliance Upgrades (IMAJAFAG)

Keywords

• Automated tank cleaning
• Oil recovery solutions
• Non-man entry cleaning
• Industrial tank cleaning
• Oil sludge removal

Headquarters

HQ city

Lynge

HQ country

Denmark

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Oreco creates automated, non-man-entry tank cleaning and oil recovery solutions designed to meet the highest standards of environmental, health, and safety. Its offering combines robotics/remote-operation equipment with associated services so tanks can be cleaned and residual oil recovered without sending personnel into the vessel.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Automated Non-Man-Entry Tank Cleaning and Oil Recovery Solutions

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Direct peers

• Inland Industrial Services: Inland Industrial Services is a US-based specialty contractor performing confined-space entry, tank cleaning, and industrial cleaning for refineries and terminals. It is a direct peer in industrial tank-cleaning services, though it relies on manual entry rather than Oreco's automated approach.
• Heritage-Crystal Clean: Heritage-Crystal Clean provides industrial cleaning, tank cleaning, and used-oil collection/recovery services primarily to industrial customers in North America. It is a direct peer because both companies generate revenue from cleaning industrial tanks and recovering hydrocarbons for resale.
• VLS Environmental Services: VLS Environmental Services is a US industrial services firm specializing in tank cleaning, degassing, sludge removal, and hydrocarbon recovery for refineries and chemical plants. It is a direct peer because its core service line - cleaning tanks and recovering oil - directly overlaps with Oreco's offering.

Broad incumbents

• Clean Harbors: Clean Harbors is a large US-listed environmental and industrial services provider that performs industrial tank cleaning, waste oil recovery, and EHS-critical site services. It is the most relevant broad incumbent because Oreco competes for the same industrial cleaning budget line, albeit with a more automated, non-man-entry approach.
• Alfa Laval (Gamajet / tank cleaning equipment): Alfa Laval, through its Gamajet brand, manufactures automated rotary tank-cleaning machines used widely in food, chemical, and oil & gas industries. It is a relevant broad incumbent on the equipment side: Oreco's robots sit in the same category of automated tank-cleaning machinery, although Alfa Laval sells equipment broadly while Oreco combines equipment with a service offering.
• Spraying Systems (TankJet): Spraying Systems, through its TankJet product line, manufactures automated tank-cleaning nozzles and machines used across chemical, oil & gas, and food industries. It is a broad incumbent supplying the same category of automated tank-cleaning equipment Oreco uses or competes with.
• Veolia Environmental Services: Veolia is a global environmental services giant with a Hazardous Waste and Industrial Cleaning division that includes tank cleaning and oil recovery services for refineries, petrochemical plants, and ports. It is comparable as a broad incumbent offering tank cleaning and hydrocarbon recovery, though at far larger scale and with a much wider service portfolio than Oreco.

Emerging players

• Lechler: Lechler is a German manufacturer of industrial spray nozzles and tank-cleaning equipment, including automated tank-cleaning machines. It is comparable to Oreco on the equipment technology axis (automated tank-cleaning hardware) and, like Oreco, is a mid-sized European industrial specialist.

Market position

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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