Rerefining capacity in the United States is projected to increase from less than 800,000 metric tons per year (about 16,000 barrels a day) in 2012 to more than 1.2 million metric tons by 2017, according to Kline & Co. That's a 50 percent gain - some of which is due to gush very soon. The U.S. rerefining industry is poised to take off, with big growth expected in the used oil business, said Anuj Kumar, project lead for Kline's Energy Practice, during a March webinar based on Kline's first comprehensive analysis of the used oil and rerefined lubricant market in the United States. In 2011, the study's base year, U.S. rerefining capacity stood at about 485,000 tons per year, according to Kline. The 2017 projection includes several announced rerefineries, although not all will pan out as base oil producers.
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