sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

SAF producer LanzaJet has secured $47 million in the first close of an equity investment round targeted at raising a total of $135 million.

Sustainable aviation fuel producer Neste and distributor World Fuel Services are aiming to make Neste SAF available at more than 100 airports across Europe over the next five years.

Airlines across Europe are struggling to get hold of essential paperwork that fuel suppliers must provide under ReFuelEU, despite a passed Feb. 14 deadline.

MHI has demonstrated an integrated production process for synthesizing liquid fuels that may produce SAF at a cost competitive with fossil jet fuel.

Heathrow Airport said it is making $109 million in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) funding available this year.

SkyNRG has closed the financing for its first SAF production facility, in the north Netherlands, which is planned to become operational in mid-2028.

“We’ve just barely got to 2% by 2026 ... [with] no prospect of getting to 6% by 2030; they’ll just move to the right," Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said in Paris.

A growing number of reports from academic and nongovernmental organizations indicates that aviation is falling short of its decarbonization targets.

Cathay Pacific has made significant gains in its corporate sustainable aviation fuel program, which is a major factor in the carrier’s increased SAF usage.

FedEx is taking delivery of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at five major U.S. airports.

Sustainable fuel producer Ineratec has lined up two airline offtakers for its first five years of electronic-sustainable aviation fuel production in Germany.

Even with the industry’s own assumptions for its decarbonization effort, the calculated outcome falls short of meeting climate change limitation targets.

Nine companies have signed an MOU to participate in Singapore’s first government-led, national-level sustainable aviation fuel procurement initiative.

Active twist rotor; vertical takeoff assist for eVTOL; propeller energy recovery; and tailored microbes for SAF production.

Singapore's FlyORO says practical deployment of its modular SAF blending unit is helping regulators, operators and airports better understand the concept of “last-mile blending.”

Germany's largest eSAF plant secured €350M in funding, aiming for 30,000 tons annual production by 2030 to meet EU ReFuelEU aviation targets.

The UK's Sustainable Aviation Fuel Clearing House is providing funding for sustainable aviation fuel development to four companies.

The UAE is eyeing major SAF export opportunities to other markets such as the European Union, which is struggling to scale up its own SAF production.

EcoCeres has opened its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Pasir Gudang, Johor, marking Malaysia’s first SAF production plant.

Demand for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) in Southeast Asia is set to increase nearly ninefold by 2040, according to the ASEAN SAF 2050 Outlook report.

AEG Fuels announced a new agreement to provide Jet A and SAF at high-demand business aviation locations served by fixed-base operator Jet Aviation.

Syzygy Plasmonics has signed a six-year offtake agreement with global commodities supplier and fuel distributor Trafigura.

A project to build a SAF production facility in the Middle East has secured funding, with developers aiming to break ground later this year.

A new research paper on global aviation emissions says efficiency-focused policy could swiftly reduce fuel use without limiting air transport capacity.