CNAF used Chinese social media to announce its investment in Junheng Biotech, but did not reveal the scale of the proposed shareholding or the value of the deal. In addition to producing SAF from used cooking oil, the company specialises in producing a range of industrial lubricants.
Reuters reports that SAF output from a Junheng refinery in Puyang, Henan Province, will more than double from the current 400,000 tonnes per year to 1 million tonnes by June 2026. It says the deal closely follows an agreement by CNAF to buy 10% of another Chinese SAF producer, controlled by Zhejiang Jiaao Enprotech, which a stock filing by that company valued at 261 million yuan ($36.35 million).
Hong Kong-based renewable energy company EcoCeres has announced a partnership with China’s Xiamen Airlines, a division of the country’s largest carrier, China Southern, to collect and transport used cooking oil for use in expanded SAF production.
The waste will come from selected restaurants in the EcoCeres feedstock supply chain for conversion at its production plant at Zhangjiagang, north of Shanghai, which can produce up to 350,000 tonnes of waste-fat SAF and hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO) per year.
It will be complemented by a second facility being built in Johor, Malaysia, and due to open later this year, which is targeting additional annual production of more than 400,000 tonnes of SAF, HVO and renewable naphtha.
In its newly-released 2024 Sustainability Report, EcoCeres confirmed that it was supplying SAF and HVO to major airlines including Cathay Pacific, British Airways and Air New Zealand, as well as logistics companies.
EcoCeres claimed its products enabled customers to cut their CO2 emissions by 1.2 million tonnes last year, and that it was targeting a reduction of 5 million tonnes by 2035.
“While our collaborations with leading global airlines have accelerated SAF adoption at Hong Kong International Airport, we are also thrilled about launching our first Malaysia plant to produce SAF later this year,” said EcoCeres CEO Matti Lievonen.
“This expansion will boost renewable fuel output by 420,000 tonnes annually, doubling our production capacity with efficient pipelines for seamless distribution.”
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