Our Services
Alliance Relations
Eco-Energy’s Alliance Relations division was created to match its market expertise and expansive distribution network with the needs of strategic producing partners. It has been a core philosophy at Eco-Energy that each producer account should be independent in decision making and marketing effort, while being able to leverage the Eco-Energy brand and utilize the expansive distribution network, information flow and customer base that has been established over Eco-Energy’s 20 year history. Although the Alliance Relations group works as a team, each plant has a designated representative who is responsible for ensuring daily communication, contract administration, position reporting, and more. The Alliance Relations personnel work to ensure optimal execution for our partners while eliminating the stress associated with the daily commodity market fluctuations and challenges of bringing biofuels directly to market. Our dynamic, knowledgeable staff will work directly with you to provide a consistent, reliable and sophisticated strategy to help manage your business by providing a full range of partner support which includes the following services:
- Visibility of market pricing
- Price Discovery nationwide, across numerous markets
- Development and understanding of local market dynamics
- Daily market intelligence, driving informed decisions
- Position Reporting – Inventory and Forecast
- Plant inventory management – maximizing cash flow
- Mark-to-Market reporting
- Crush Margin Management
Marketing Services
The Marketing Services division develops and provides value added services to Eco-Energy’s current customer base. Eco-Energy aims to leverage expertise in multiple commodities in order to provide innovative pricing and risk management tools to its clients. The Marketing Services division has the ability to provide Eco-Energy customers various pricing options in the bio-fuels market. These marketing services create highly valued flexibility in its customer’s decision making and marketing strategies, which is essential to survival in our highly competitive market. Effectively, through Marketing Services, Eco-Energy enables our clients to participate in active price management not only when initiating a new transaction, but well after a purchase or sale is executed, in order to properly manage crush margin volatility and commodity price exposure. Some of the solutions we offer are:
- Creating optimum netback through multiple pricing options on each transaction
- Creating efficient margin/price risk management
- Ethanol Basis Contracts
- RBOB Basis Contracts
- Minimum and Maximum Price Contracts
Distribution Services
Eco-Energy’s Distribution Services is centered around its core marketing business and focuses on further downstream distribution. Distribution Services handles the inbound and outbound scheduling, inventory management and operating complexities associated with moving product through the biofuels supply chain. Under this division, Eco-Energy also looks to locate, develop, and manage distribution sites in strategic locations where it is difficult to get bio-fuels to market. Currently, our Distribution Services division operates and manages over 20 facilities in North America with access to over 600 terminals. The Transportation and Distribution Services teams handle more than 25,000 railcars and over 60,000 trucks per year, with access to over 800,000 barrels of storage. For your needs, the Distribution teams are here to provide you with:
- Flexible solutions to logistical challenges
- Ability to leverage our size for your access to difficult markets
- Expansive Distribution network offering a variety of downstream strategic options
- Transloading Services
- Management of all inventory and scheduling utilizing state-of-the-art systems
- Distribution Site development
