southern green industries

What southern green industries does

Southern Green Industries is a privately held, vertically integrated commercial waste services company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. The company provides grease trap and interceptor cleaning, fryer oil collection, and regulatory compliance documentation services to commercial kitchens across the entire state of Georgia, with primary concentration in the Greater Metro-Atlanta area. Its customer base spans single-location independent restaurants, multi-location franchise operators, sports and entertainment venues (including Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Fox Theater, and Ponce City Market), universities and hospitals, commercial real estate portfolios managed by firms such as JLL and CentreCorp, and industrial food processing facilities.

The company's core technology stack is built around physical infrastructure rather than software. It owns and operates an on-site oil recycling/biodiesel production facility, a wastewater treatment plant, and a custom container fabrication shop at its 4565 Frederick Drive SW headquarters. Its fleet of service vehicles runs entirely on biodiesel produced from the waste cooking oil it collects, creating a closed-loop operational model. Differentiated products include the Integrated Oil Management System (iOMS), which automates fryer-to-tank oil transfer to eliminate spills, manual handling, and theft; custom-fabricated oil storage containers ranging from 5 to 500+ gallons; a 24/7 online client portal providing pickup history, oil volume tracking, and recycling credit accounting; and full-service manifest preparation and submission to local regulators across Atlanta Watershed, Fulton, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, and Gwinnett counties.

Revenue is generated primarily through recurring service contracts and on-demand grease trap cleaning billed per visit, with quote-based pricing tied to trap size, access conditions, and cleaning frequency. A secondary revenue stream comes from purchasing used fryer oil at market rates and reselling or converting it into biodiesel, with recycling credits applied as offsets on customer invoices. Go-to-market is sales-led via direct phone, website quote requests, and field sales for multi-location enterprise accounts; customer acquisition is driven by organic search, content marketing through the company blog, and word-of-mouth referrals within the Atlanta commercial kitchen ecosystem. The company does not appear to use paid digital advertising or third-party distribution channels.

Name

southern green industries

Legal name

Southern Green Industries Inc.

Website

https://southerngreeninc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Southern Green Industries is a privately held, vertically integrated Atlanta-based provider of grease trap cleaning, fryer oil recycling, and compliance documentation services for commercial kitchens across Georgia, operating its own biodiesel, wastewater, and container fabrication infrastructure.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Commercial Waste Management Services

akta.pro primary industry

Grease Trap, Used Cooking Oil & FOG Services (Collection & Recycling) (EUAIAGAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Used Oil, Lubricants & Industrial Fluids Recovery/Recycling (IMAIAFAM), Used Oil & Oily Waste Management (Collection, Re-refining, Disposal) (BPALAFAI)

Keywords

• Grease trap cleaning
• Fryer oil recycling
• Commercial kitchen services
• FOG compliance management
• Used cooking oil collection

Headquarters

HQ city

Atlanta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Grease Trap Cleaning Services: Recurring and one-time grease trap and interceptor pumping, cleaning, and maintenance services for commercial kitchens. Revenue is generated through service fees billed per visit or under recurring service contracts. The company offers both contract and no-contract options. Service is priced based on trap size, type, access conditions, and cleaning frequency.
2. Fryer Oil Recycling / Purchase: Southern Green Industries collects used cooking oil from restaurants and pays them per gallon/pound based on market conditions. This offsets service costs via recycling credits that clients can apply toward grease trap cleaning invoices. Revenue is generated by converting collected oil into biodiesel which fuels the company's own fleet and is sold onward.
3. Manifest and Compliance Documentation Services: The company provides printed, digital (email PDF), and online service manifests documenting grease trap cleaning. It also forwards required documentation to local regulators on behalf of clients. This is bundled with service contracts as a value-add but represents a component of the overall service revenue model.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Southern Green Industries provides grease trap and interceptor cleaning, pumping, and maintenance for commercial kitchens, along with used fryer oil collection and recycling. The company operates its own oil recycling facility, an on-site wastewater treatment plant, and a container fabrication shop, converting collected cooking oil into biodiesel that powers its service fleet. Services include recurring or one-time cleaning, oil pickup, manifest documentation, and regulator paperwork forwarding.

Product overview

Southern Green Industries offers a unified suite of waste management services for commercial kitchens, combining grease trap cleaning and fryer oil recycling into an integrated offering. The core services include Grease Trap Cleaning Services (covering indoor traps, under-sink interceptors, and outdoor grease interceptors) and Fryer Oil Recycling Services (with pickup tracking and competitive compensation). Key add-on offerings include the Integrated Oil Management System (iOMS) for automated oil transfer, oil collection containers (5-500 gallons with custom fabrication), a Client Portal for 24/7 tracking, and Documentation & Manifest Management for compliance support. The company operates its own oil recycling facility and wastewater processing plant, enabling vertical integration where all collected oil is converted to biodiesel to fuel their fleet.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Grease Trap Cleaning Services Professional pumping, cleaning, and maintenance of indoor grease traps, under-sink interceptors, and large outdoor grease interceptors for commercial kitchens across Metro Atlanta and Georgia, including manifest documentation and regulator submission support.
• Fryer Oil Recycling Services Collection of used cooking oil from commercial kitchens with pickup tracking, per-gallon compensation, recycling credits applied to invoices, and 24/7 online account access. Collected oil is processed at the company's own facility into biodiesel.

Quantifiable outcome

• Indoor grease traps must be serviced at least every 14 days; outdoor interceptors at least every 90 days to comply with Atlanta FOG regulations
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Baker Commodities: Major U.S. renderer and used cooking oil collector, primarily serving West Coast markets. Comparable on the UCO collection-to-recycling value chain that SGI operates in with its Atlanta biodiesel facility.
• Heritage-Crystal Clean: Public environmental services company providing used oil collection, parts cleaning, and waste services. Comparable on the used-oil collection and recycling side of SGI's business at much broader scale.
• Waste Management: Largest U.S. waste services company with national collection, recycling, and landfill network. Comparable as a broad incumbent in commercial waste services against which regional grease/FOG specialists like SGI compete for enterprise contracts.
• Darling Ingredients: Global public rendering and used cooking oil processor (NYSE: DAR) with a much larger UCO collection and biodiesel/renewable fuels footprint. Overlaps with SGI on the oil-recycling value chain but operates at vastly larger scale and across many end markets.
• Stericycle: Large regulated and specialty waste services provider with national coverage. Comparable as a broad waste-management incumbent that enterprise clients may consider alongside regional grease-handling specialists like SGI.

Direct peers

• Restaurant Technologies: Provides automated cooking oil management systems and fryer monitoring to chain restaurants. Directly comparable to SGI's iOMS offering and competes for the same multi-location QSR customers on oil-handling automation.
• Kitchen Guard: National grease trap and hood cleaning franchise serving commercial kitchens. Comparable core offering (grease trap cleaning) and SMB/mid-market restaurant customer base, though without SGI's biodiesel vertical integration.
• Mahoney Environmental: National grease trap cleaning and used cooking oil collection company serving commercial kitchens. Closest direct comparable to SGI in core service offering, customer base (restaurants, institutions, food service), and integrated oil collection model.

Others

• Servpro: Large commercial and residential cleaning/restoration franchise network. Adjacent service provider sharing commercial-kitchen and property-management customers with SGI, often competing for facility-services wallet share.
• ChemAqua: Commercial water treatment and wastewater services provider for institutional and industrial customers. Adjacent comparator relevant to SGI's on-site wastewater treatment component and shared institutional customer set.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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