Springboard Biodiesel, LLC2323 Park Ave, Chico, California, United States

Springboard Biodiesel,LLC., incorporated in 2008, is a biodiesel equipment manufacturer that is leading the way in developing a vibrant, small-scale biodiesel production industry. The company has been enabling institutions, businesses, municipalities, farmers, cooperatives, and anyone who has access to vegetable or animal oils to convert that oil, 50 to 100 gallons at a time, into premium-grade biodiesel for an average cost of 95 cents per gallon(!) Currently, Springboard has a network of active customers that extends through 26 countries and into all 50 states. The heart of this network is a patented device called The BioPro™. If you can operate a washing machine, you can operate a BioPro™.  Springboard Biodiesel hat As the network expands, we are focused on delivering the most innovative biodiesel products and technologies that enable local biodiesel production from the widest array of feedstocks. By allowing our customers to make biodiesel from multiple sources (virgin oil seed crops, animal oils and waste veg. oil), we help them minimize their costs and earn a truly compelling economic return for an environmentally beneficial fuel. With this combination of benefits as our tailwind, our goal is to make biodiesel the preferred fuel, not just the alternative.

Research and Development

biodiesel processor Springboards R&D efforts are on-going, and as we grow our presence in the small-scale arena, we look forward to soon producing and selling our own ASTM-certified biodiesel here in Chico, CA. Thanks to some clever engineering and help from the California Energy Commission, we have developed a 1,000 gallon per day automated system that enables us to process a wide array of local feedstocks into ASTM-grade biodiesel. Because this is a modular system with a zero-waste footprint, we look forward to offering our BioPro™ power-users the opportunity to pair select glycerin and methanol purification modules with their existing systems to create local, low-cost production systems that generate zero waste.

Commercial Biodiesel Processors

The BioPro™ 380 will produce 100 gallons or 380 liters of ASTM-grade biodiesel every 48, 23 or 13 hours, depending on your equipment decisions. An operator can comfortably produce 300 to 400 gallons a week at the traditional speed, or 1200 gallons per week with SpringPro T76 (This can be sped up further to 275 gallons per day with the use of "Buffer Tanks"). How much vegetable oil can you collect per week? To calculate savings, add your oil cost to 85 cents per gallon (cost of all other inputs required including electricity). What are you paying for diesel today? The BioPro™ 380 is as easy to operate as a washing machine; load it up, press the big green START button and walk away.

Finance Biodiesel Processors and Biodiesel Equipment

Springboard Biodiesel, LLC is happy to provide small business customers with competitive financing, making it easier and quicker to purchase and make a clean profit with a BioPro™ biodiesel processor.  In addition, we guarantee financing for any accredited educational institution in the United States. This takes the burden of the purchase off a schools capital budget and enables any department (Chemistry, Biology, Agriculture, etc) to manage the purchase from the departments operating budget. (No money down. Pay by the month.) With an ROI as attractive as this, a business, school or municipality would only need to make three batches per month in a BioPro™ 190 to easily account for that monthly payment in fuel savings earned.