Bioethanol News

Apr 17, 2023
EWABA has highlighted the ‘important’ issue of falsely certified biofuels which has become an issue in Germany. The German federal environment ministry (BMUV) has announced it was aware of falsely certified biofuels circulating domestically, Argus Media has reported. European biodiesel producers have been highlighting that fuel imported into the EU from China has been falsely certified as…
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Apr 17, 2023
Crown is opening the doors to its recently completed liquids pilot plant. The firm is offering customers access to a state-of-the-art continuous process environment for testing, validating, scaling and commercialising of renewable diesel/HVO, SAF and biodiesel. Unique features of the Liquids Pilot Plant include Crown’s RD ReadyTM Pretreatment System that doubles hydrotreater catalyst life,…
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Apr 14, 2023
Neste and Ryanair have expanded their collaboration to enable the airline to power its full schedule of flights from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with a 40% blend of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel. This significant increase in SAF usage represents the latest milestone towards Ryanair’s ambitious goal of operating 12.5% of flights with SAF by 2030 and further supports Ryanair’s “Pathway…
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Apr 13, 2023
Axens has acquired a stake in the BioTJet project to build and operate the largest European sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production unit using the Fischer-Tropsch process and BioTfueL® technology. This unit will be built in France and will be started up by 2027. BioTfueL® is an advanced biofuel production technology using the thermochemical route, developed and proven within the…
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Apr 11, 2023
Growth Energy, the US Grains Council and the Renewable Fuels Association jointly issued a statement after Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) finalised a rule that will allow producers more access to the Japanese biofuel market. Growth Energy CEO Emily Skor, US Grains Council President and CEO Ryan LeGrand, and Renewable Fuels Association President and CEO Geoff Cooper…
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Apr 11, 2023
Wizz Air has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Cepsa for the supply of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from 2025. The MoU gives Wizz Air the opportunity to purchase SAF from Cepsa to supply the airline’s route network across Spain. Cepsa’s SAF will be produced from organic waste, such as used cooking oils or agricultural waste, among others. The partnership follows an…
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Apr 6, 2023
Cathay Pacific has teamed up with the State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC) to drive the further development of the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supply chain in China. SPIC is one of the largest state-owned energy companies in the Chinese mainland and a company with the world’s largest solar power installed capacity. SPIC and Cathay Pacific have recently signed a Memorandum of…
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Apr 5, 2023
Vistara, India’s full-service carrier and a joint venture with Tata group and Singapore Airlines, has become the country’s first carrier to operate a wide-body aircraft using sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) on a long-haul route. The ground-breaking flight from Charleston International Airport, South Carolina, to Indira Gandhi International Airport, Delhi, was operated in partnership with…
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Apr 5, 2023
Neste plans to start commercial production at its renewable fuels expansion project in Singapore in the coming weeks following trial runs, a senior company executive revealed. The Finnish biofuel producer plans to inaugurate the 1.3 million tonne per year (tpy) plant in May, executive vice-president Carl Nyberg told Reuters. The plant will boost Neste's sustainable aviation fuel capacity by up…
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Apr 4, 2023
The crop forecast for Argentina has been lowered again considerably, which has also reduced consumption and export estimates. In its latest report, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) expects the global soybean crop in 2022/23 to reach around 375 million tonnes. This would be down just under 8 million tonnes from the February forecast, but up 17 million tonnes on 2021/2022. The decrease…
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Apr 3, 2023
German oil mills processed less rapeseed, sunflower seed and fewer soybeans in the first half of the running marketing year 2022/23 compared with the same period a year earlier. According to information published by the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food (BLE), oil mills in Germany processed just under 4.5 million tonnes of rapeseed in the period July through December last year.…
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Apr 3, 2023
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has for the first time agreed to use sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) that was blended in Japan under a public-private initiative led by the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). ANA will procure the blended SAF from ITOCHU Corporation, and will use the fuel on ANA's international and domestic flights from Haneda and…
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Mar 31, 2023
LanzaJet is collaborating with Jet Zero Australia aimed at deploying its Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant in Queensland. The plant, which could be Australia’s first ATJ SAF production facility, is supported by the Queensland Government, Qantas and Airbus as part of the Australian SAF Partnership. LanzaJet’s leading and proprietary…
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Mar 27, 2023
bp’s Kwinana refinery is spearheading the company’s expansion of its biofuels business. Kwinana is one of five biofuel projects that bp has planned globally. It is expected that these projects will produce around 50,000 barrels of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and HVO per day by 2030. The Kwinana Renewable Fuels project is part of the global multi-billion dollar investment by bp and…
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Mar 24, 2023
Alaska Airlines announced an agreement with Shell Aviation to expand the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) market beyond a standard fuel supply agreement. The innovative cross-industry collaboration brings together a world-class fuel supply chain and the fifth-largest domestic carrier to procure and use sustainable fuel, while working together to define and tackle what it will take to advance SAF…
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