Gesuga

What Gesuga does

Gesuga (legal name: GESTORA DE SUBPRODUCTOS DE GALICIA, S.L.) is a privately held Spanish industrial operator headquartered in Cerceda, La Coruña, that specializes in the collection and transformation of animal by-products not intended for human consumption across the Galicia region. The company runs a vertically integrated operation: a 54-vehicle fleet collects dead livestock and pets from farms and veterinary clinics on a 24/7/365 schedule, processing approximately 500 collection notices and 250,000-300,000 kg of material per day. At the Cerceda facility, Gesuga operates a Category 1 plant at 20,000 kg/hour, a Category 2 plant (inaugurated June 2017) at 10 tons/hour, and a gasification plant for meat meals (inaugurated August 2022), producing Category 1 meals sold to cement kilns, Category 2 meals sold to organic fertilizer manufacturers, and animal fats used internally as biofuel or sold to biodiesel producers.

The business model combines service revenue (collection contracts channeled through Agroseguro for insured livestock and direct contact for uninsured animals and pets) with product sales of meals and fats to authorized downstream industries. Customer concentration is diffuse within the regional livestock and veterinary clinic universe, though Gesuga is geographically concentrated in Galicia and serves an essentially captive regional mandate for compliant SANDACH (animal by-product) handling. The company employs roughly 46 people in operations (6 in routes, 40 operators) plus management, and has signaled forward expansion through the BIOCULTIVA project (May 2026), a multi-party initiative to valorize organic by-products into agricultural biostimulants. No AI/ML capability is disclosed; the principal digital systems are GPS-enabled fleet tracking and real-time route optimization supporting daily logistics.

Name

Gesuga

Legal name

GESTORA DE SUBPRODUCTOS DE GALICIA, S.L.

Website

https://gesuga.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Gesuga is a privately held Galician industrial operator that collects and processes animal by-products not intended for human consumption for livestock farms, veterinary clinics, and pet owners in Galicia, Spain, producing meat meals and animal fats sold to cement, fertilizer, and biodiesel industries.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Animal By-Product Processing / Rendering Services

NAICS

All Other Animal Production (112990)

SIC

Agricultural Services (700)

akta.pro primary industry

Dead Animal (Carcass) Removal & Deodorization (HSAMAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Biosecurity, Disease Control & Outbreak Response (Quarantine, Zoonoses) (AFACADAH)

Keywords

• Meat by-product processing
• Animal carcass collection
• Rendering services
• Meat meal production
• Animal fat processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Cerceda

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Meat By-Product Collection Services: Gesuga collects dead livestock and pets from farms and veterinary clinics, operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The company processes approximately 250,000 to 300,000 kg of by-products daily.
2. Meat Meal Sales: Category 1 meat meals are sold to authorized managers (cement industries) for incineration in rotary kilns, utilizing their calorific value for heat generation. Category 2 meat meals are sold to organic fertilizer manufacturers.
3. Animal Fat Sales: Category 1 and 2 animal fats are used as biofuel in Gesuga's own Category 1 and 2 transformation plants, and a portion is sold to authorized biodiesel manufacturing plants.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Gesuga collects dead livestock and pets from farms and veterinary clinics across Galicia, operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year via a 54-vehicle fleet. The collected materials are transported to and processed at Category 1 and Category 2 transformation plants in Cerceda, where they are converted into meat meals (for cement industry incineration and organic fertilizer manufacturing) and animal fats (used as biofuel or sent to biodiesel manufacturers).

Product overview

Gesuga operates as a Galician meat by-product treatment company offering a unified service portfolio centered on collection services and product transformation. The collection services include livestock farm collection (handling bovine, horses, and other animal categories) and pet collection from veterinary clinics. These collected materials are processed in Gesuga's Category 1 plant (20,000 kg/hour capacity) and Category 2 plant (inaugurated June 2017, 10 tonnes/hour capacity) located in Cerceda. The transformation process yields Category 1 meat meals (sent to cement industries for incineration) and Category 2 meat meals (sent to organic fertilizer manufacturers), along with animal fats used as biofuel or sent to biodiesel manufacturers. A gasification plant for meat meals was inaugurated in August 2022.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• 30,000 kg/h meat by-product processing capacity
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• PreZero: Iberian environmental services company focused on circular economy, waste collection, and material recovery. Adjacent competitor in regulated waste valorization across Spain and Portugal.
• SOGAMA: Galician public-sector waste management company. Operates in the same region as Gesuga with overlapping waste-handling and valorization activities, though focused more on municipal solid waste than animal by-products.
• FCC Environment: Spanish environmental services provider (FCC Group) operating waste collection, treatment, and valorization across Iberia. Adjacent in regulated waste handling and circular-economy services in the same geography.

Broad incumbents

• Biffa: UK waste management company with animal by-product collection and processing as part of a broader waste services portfolio. Overlaps on regulated carcass collection and rendering services.
• Baker Commodities: US-based renderer with collection and processing of animal by-products into tallow, meal, and renewable feedstocks. Comparable rendering activities and downstream offtake markets.
• Darling Ingredients: Global rendering leader producing meals, fats, and renewable fuels from animal by-products. Comparable end products and customer segments but operates at vastly greater scale and geographic reach than Gesuga.

Direct peers

• SARIA: European rendering and animal by-product processor with extensive Category 1/2 collection and processing operations across multiple countries. Directly comparable in service scope (collection + transformation into meals and fats) and regulatory positioning.
• Akiolis: French specialist in animal by-product collection and rendering, producing meals, fats, and energy. Comparable operating model with regulated processing, downstream industrial offtake, and circular-economy positioning.
• SARP Industries: French hazardous and animal by-product waste processor with collection, treatment, and energy recovery. Comparable in regulated rendering operations and valorization of by-products into industrial outputs.

Emerging players

• Olleco: UK-based collector of used cooking oil and food waste with adjacent rendering and by-product valorization activities. Emerging player with partial overlap in regulated by-product collection and downstream fuel/feed markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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