In Italy, MAIRE announced that KT -Kinetics Technology supported by the technological know-how of NEXTCHEM, has been awarded by Pengerang Biorefinery Sdn licensing, as well as engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPCC) services for an HPU to be located in Johor, Malaysia. NEXTCHEM will provide the license of its proprietary NX Reform technology. The HPU will be part of a new biorefinery within Pengerang Integrated Complex and will produce around 38,000 normal metric cubes per hour of hydrogen, essential for the biorefinery’s conversion processes. Upon completion, the biorefinery will process approx. 650,000 tons per year of raw materials such as used vegetable oils, animal fats and waste from the processing of vegetable oils to produce SAF, Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and bio-naphtha. The contract value is approximately $125 million, and the plant is expected to be operational in 2028.
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