Altalto advances as UK's leading waste-to-SAF project with new government funding and NEXTCHEM partnership

Altalto is designed to produce 30 million liters of SAF annually from residual waste streams, enough to power over 500 London-to-New York flights per year. / SOURCE: Velocys

September 10, 2025

BY Velocys

DOE funds 2 SAF research projects

By Erin Krueger

4 hours ago

Feedstocks Business Policy

The U.S. Department of Energy on Aug. 29 awarded funding to two SAF research projects, including a project that aims produce SAF from bio-derived methanol and a project that aims to use distillers grains with solubles (DGS) as a SAF feedstock.

By USA BioEnergy

4 hours ago

Business

USA BioEnergy on Sept. 10 announced it has selected Johnson Matthey and Honeywell to provide their industry-leading process technologies to USA BioEnergy to produce synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) at its Bon Wier, Texas biorefinery.

By Erin Krueger

September 09, 2025

Advanced Biofuels Markets Business Operations

The U.S. EIA reduced its outlook for 2025 biodiesel and renewable diesel production in its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook, released Sept. 9. The 2026 production outlook for other biofuels, which includes SAF, was revised up.

By Axens

September 09, 2025

Business Operations

Axens has announced the startup of a 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) unit in Asia. The facility features Axens’ Vegan technology and has the capacity to entirely convert renewable feedstock into high value SAF.

By Erin Krueger

September 08, 2025

Policy Business

The U.S. Department of Energy’s 2025 U.S. Energy and Employment Report indicates that nearly 112,000 workers were employed by the U.S. renewable fuels industry last year, accounting for roughly 10% of total U.S. employment in the fuels sector.

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