In Florida, Willis Lease Finance Corporation, a lessor of commercial aircraft engines and provider of global aviation service operations, announced its subsidiary, Willis Sustainable Fuels (UK) Limited (WSFL), has entered into a master services agreement) with McDermott for early engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) related services for its SAF initiative. The agreement commences with WSFL’s […]
In the UK, International Airlines Group (IAG) announced a new SAF purchase agreement with e-SAF producer Infinium, which plans to supply the UK market with power-to-liquid e-SAF from late 2026. Under the terms of the ten-year agreement, Infinium will supply IAG with e-SAF to support any of its five airlines, Aer Lingus, British Airways, Iberia, […]
In Spain, La Vanguardia reported that Solarig announced its plans to develop a sustainable aviation fuel plant on 10 hectares of the Teruel Logistics Platform (Platea). The initiative will require an an investment of $1.20 billion that will create some 1,200 direct and indirect jobs, according to the report. This project, called ‘Turboleta’, is expected […]
In India, S&P Global reported that the Indian government may push for sweet sorghum as an alternative to sugarcane to diversify ethanol feedstocks, amid ongoing volatility in sugarcane availability, according to an official from the Indian Institute of Millets Research. The official noted that the government prefers sweet sorghum as an additional feedstock for biofuel, […]
In the Netherlands, Blackwood Technology announced the successful start of production of the first commercial FlashTor black pellet plant in Lampang Province, Thailand. The plant is owned and operated by NT Biomass Products Company Limited (NTBC), a 100% subsidiary of TTCL Public Company Limited (TTCL). When fully ramped-up, it will produce 75,000 tonnes of black […]
In India, Business North East reported that the chairman of the Pollution Control Board Assam (PCBA) Arup Kumar Misra, emphasized the Assam region’s strategic position in supplying biofuel inputs due to its rich agricultural resources and strong farming community. “Northeast India has the potential to become a significant provider of biofuel raw materials,” he said. […]
In Pennsylvania, US firm NewEnergyBlue and Finnish company MetGen began integrating their renewable technologies and business units to compete with fossil-carbon products. “NewEnergyBlue’s biomass conversion technologies, augmented by MetGen’s capabilities, can create a broader array of higher-value, lower-carbon biochemicals without wasting a molecule,” said Alex Michine, founder of MetGen. “We envision this partnership delivering specific […]
In Finland, Neste and Singapore-based essential chemicals company PCShave launched a cooperation for the supply of renewable solutions to Southeast Asia’s chemicals industry. The collaboration aims at introducing renewable raw materials to replace fossil ones in chemicals and plastics value chains in the region, Neste said. Neste will supply PCS with Neste RE, a renewable […]
In Spain, bp Energy Spain has signed a strategic agreement with Spanish agri-food group MIGASA for the annual supply of up to 40,000 tons of non-food industrial waste from vegetable oil for a decade. bp will use these bio-based feedstocks together with other fossil feedstocks to co-process renewable fuels at its Castellón refinery, such as […]
In Indiana, Corteva announced a collaboration with bp on the companies’ shared intent to form a crop-based biofuel feedstock joint venture. The JV would produce and deliver crop-based biofuel feedstocks to help meet the anticipated growth in demand for SAF. Corteva and bp have executed a non-binding memorandum of understanding, with the intent of forming […]
