Fuels and chemical company earns RSB certification

The RSB Services Foundation, the implementing entity of the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB), a global sustainability standard and certification system for biofuels and biomaterials production, has awarded Camelina Company España (CCE) its sustainability certification.

CCE, a renewable fuels and chemicals group, pioneered the manufacturing and marketing of fuel and chemicals from camelina.

RSB's sustainability certification covers CCE's office in Madrid, over 150 farmers in the regions of Castilla La Mancha and Aragón, its logistics centre in Albacete and a grain crushing facility in Tarancon.

‘CCE has pioneered the production of sustainable road and aviation biofuel in Spain from this promising new source. It guided farmers and the crushing facility through certification for the first time demonstrating that large groups of farmers can be certified successfully and efficiently according to the requirements of the RSB Standard,’ says Peter Ryus, RSB Services' CEO.

‘CCE strongly believes in producing new sustainable feedstock for the production of advanced biofuels. Sustainable camelina oil produced in Spain has been cultivated in the framework of the ITAKA project, in arid dryland regions in collaboration with farmers requiring an oilseed alternative for their crop rotation, in order to replace fallow land periods,’ says Yuri Herreras Yambanis, CCE's director. ‘Hence, there is no land use change involved, while CCE also produces high quality raw material for the animal feed industry.

‘Additionally, and although better environmental performance is achievable, derived biojet fuel will already present over 60% GHG emissions reduction compared to fossil fuels,’ he adds.