Building The UCO Industry’s Most Trusted Network
We’re not your typical used cooking oil buyer. We’re former collectors who built Tengri Commodities because we know exactly what you need. Fair Prices, Fast Payments, and a partner who actually understand your business.
Tengri Commodities was founded by Artem Kamalov, a used cooking oil collector who spent years navigating the challenges of this industry firsthand. In 2025, he founded Tengri Commodities with a simple mission: become the buyer he wished he had when he was collecting.
Today, we’re one of the fastest-growing renewable feedstock brokers in the Americas, specializing in used cooking oil, yellow grease, brown grease, trap grease, and other biodiesel feedstocks. But what makes us different isn’t just what we buy, it’s how we buy it and who we partner with.
Before founding Tengri Commodities, Artem was a used cooking oil collector navigating the same challenges you face every day—unreliable buyers, rejected loads, slow payments, and a lack of transparency in pricing.
That experience gave him a unique perspective on what collectors actually need from a buyer. It’s not just competitive pricing (though that matters). It’s reliability. Transparency. Someone who picks up the phone. Someone who doesn’t suddenly change the terms after you’ve built a relationship.
Artem built Tengri Commodities to be that partner—the one that empowers independent collectors and small haulers instead of squeezing them out. His vision is simple: create a buying network where collectors can grow their businesses with a partner they can trust, not just a broker looking for the next load.
Why “Tengri”?
Tengri is the ancient Turkic and Mongolian sky deity, representing harmony between earth and heaven. For us, it symbolizes the balance we seek—between collector and buyer, between profit and partnership, between growth and sustainability.
We’re not here to just buy your feedstock, we’re here to help you succeed.
Looking to exit or acquire? We're developing M&A services specifically for haulers and collectors in the UCO industry, making succession planning and business sales smoother than ever.
Coverage Area: United States, Canada, Caribbeans, and Latin America
Transparent Pricing
We believe you deserve to know what you’re getting paid and why. No hidden fees. No surprise deductions. Just honest pricing based on quality and market conditions.
Reliable Pickup
When we say we’ll be there, we’ll be there. Your schedule matters, and we coordinate logistics to work around your routes, not ours.
Fair Quality Standards
We assess quality fairly and pay accordingly. Got a mixed load? We’ll work through it. Minor quality issues? We can often still buy it when others can’t.
Long-Term Partnership
We’re not chasing one-off loads. We’re building relationships that last years, not days. Your success is our success.
