Jun 26, 2025
Advancements in biofuel raw materials
Features
Jun 19, 2025
Aviation has long been one of the most stubborn sectors when it comes to climate change.
Despite its relatively small share of global CO₂ emissions—about 2.5%—its overall climate impact is far greater due to non-CO₂ effects like contrails and nitrogen oxides. And yet, unlike road transport or electricity, sustainable alternatives for jet fuel remain rare, expensive,... [Read More]
Features
Jun 16, 2025
Chelsea Grimes, Global Strategic Marketing Manager at Grace, outlines how the company has been supporting the biofuels industry.
Can you outline Grace’s solutions for biofuels and SAF?
Let me start by saying that Grace is one of the leading global suppliers of speciality chemicals and solutions that enable industries to enhance modern life.
To that end, we have been... [Read More]
Features
Jun 16, 2025
In the UK, Jet2.com began using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on flights from Bristol Airport earlier this year.
The airline purchased over 300 tonnes of SAF from Q8Aviation, which has been used to add a 1% SAF blend on to a number of departing flights from the West Country airport.
Elsewhere in Europe, Sasol and Topsoe announced the successful launch of their joint... [Read More]
Features
Jun 9, 2025
Biofuels play a key role in reducing greenhouse emissions by providing an alternative to traditional fossil fuels.
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), modern bioenergy is the largest renewable energy source globally, accounting for 55% of renewable energy and over 6% of the global energy supply.
The EIA’s Net Zero Emissions by 2050 Scenario... [Read More]
Features
Jun 9, 2025
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has made new estimates for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production.
In summary the headline figures include:
• SAF volumes reached over 600 million litres (0.5Mt) in 2023, double the 300 million litres (0.25 Mt) produced the year before.
• SAF accounted for 3% of all renewable fuels produced with 97% of renewable... [Read More]
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Jun 3, 2025
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) recently approved a $25 million (€23 million) investment in the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE)-led Regional Conservation Partnership Programme (RCPP) expansion.
This builds on the successful South Dakota-based project announced in 2021 to unlock corn ethanol access... [Read More]
Features
Jun 2, 2025
Firefly’s founder James Hygate and Nufarm’s André Paulo Santos will be speaking at the Biofuels International Conference and Expo and SAF Summit to be held in Brussels on 24–25 June. Both share their thoughts on the challenges facing the industry.
Can you outline what Firefly has been doing this year?
Over the past year, Firefly has been progressing its FOAK project... [Read More]
Features
Jun 2, 2025
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has called on South Africa to mobilize its experience, resources and infrastructure to accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production in the country.
The call came after government and industry officials gathered in Johannesburg for the IATA Wings of Change Focus Africa conference.
“South... [Read More]
Features
May 27, 2025
The biodiesel sector has undergone significant market changes in recent years, leading to the emergence of new processing and technological solutions.
In Europe, the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive III (RED III) is driving substantial change in the biodiesel sector, which has already seen major market evolution and technological progress.
The directive sets binding... [Read More]
Features
May 27, 2025
The aviation industry is one of the vital arteries that keeps the global economy ticking, but as a major source of carbon emissions it comes at a significant cost to the planet.
Current projections estimate that demand for air passenger journeys could exceed 16 billion by 2050, placing further strain on a sector which is facing constant scrutiny, so it is essential to... [Read More]
Features
May 23, 2025
Carl Nyberg, Senior Vice President Commercial, Renewable Products at Neste, reveals his biofuel outlook for the year ahead.
Last year was a dynamic one especially for the biofuels industry with production capacity outpacing demand growth.
This could be seen in the market for renewable diesel as well as in the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market.
With the current... [Read More]
Features
May 20, 2025
Global air travel is projected to grow significantly, with passenger numbers expected to reach 22.2 billion by 2050, up from 9.1 billion in 2019.
As air travel continues to increase, airlines are committing to net-zero emissions by 2050 to meet regulatory requirements, respond to consumer demand, and play a key role in global climate goals.
Without urgent action to develop... [Read More]
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May 19, 2025
ePURE members and other European producers of renewable ethanol produced 5.08 million tonnes (6.4 billion litres) of ethanol and 6.5 million tonnes of food and feed co-products, including high-protein animal feed – in other words, more food than fuel – in 2023, when these figures were last correlated by ePURE.
All of the crops used were grown by European farmers.... [Read More]
Features
May 15, 2025
Aether Fuels has reported promising demonstration results for the electric Tri-Converter technology embedded in its proprietary Aether Aurora™ solution, which aims to transform the economics of sustainable fuels and accelerate their large-scale deployment.
This electric Tri-Converter demonstration had a capacity more than 50 times greater than that of the previously... [Read More]
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