Clean fuels

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, two Dutch schemes with a combined budget of €290 million to support sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).

Air Canada and Airbus have announced their intent to establish a jointly funded Sustainability Co-Investment Platform to invest up to approximately CAN$13.7 million through the platform to support a commercial-scale SAF industry in Canada.

Convertus Group has announced the successful financial close of $135 million in project financing for its flagship biofuel facility located in York Region, Ontario, Canada.

HAMR Energy has secured up to AUS$32 million in conditional funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to advance its landmark decarbonisation projects.

The Middle East is poised to dominate global methanol capacity additions by 2030, driven primarily by its access to abundant and cheap natural gas, which is a primary feedstock for methanol production, GlobalData has reported.

Celtic Renewables has partnered with Evonik to supply bio-based chemicals for use in cosmetics formulations.

Valmet has received an order to deliver a Valmet DNAe Distributed Control System (DCS) for a CO2 liquefaction plant at Auris Energia’s biogas plant in Mäntsälä, Finland,

Axens has announced the launch of the ERA project, France’s first industrial-scale SAF production unit based on advanced bioethanol.

Topsoe and Sasol have signed a licensing agreement with Allied Biofuels to provide technologies for its eSAF and bio-based SAF production facility located in the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan.

INERATEC and Zeopore have collaborated to increase the efficiency of CO2-neutral fuels and support the competitive scale-up of sustainable fuel and chemical production.

Catalyxx has secured a €20 million grant in EU funding through RenewChem for the construction of Catalyxx's first commercial bio-based chemicals plant in Europe.

Heurtey Petrochem Solutions has been selected by Transition Industries as the electrical tubular furnace provider for the Pacífico Mexinol project, a world-scale ultra-low-carbon methanol production facility under development in Mexico.

Topsoe and Sasol have signed a single point licensing agreement with SUSTAERO, a developer of SAF production infrastructure in Canada.

Supporting both decarbonisation strategies and supply security, biofuel demand is increasing, but feedstock availability threatens to cap growth, reported GlobalData.

Axens has announced that it has signed an agreement with Air Liquide to acquire its methanol to olefins technology portfolio, including the Lurgi Methanol-to-Propylene™.