Maire Tecnimont S.p.A. (Milan: MT.MI) announces that its subsidiary NextChem has been awarded a contract by TotalEnergies to carry out a FEED and supply its technological know-how to implement a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant in Grandpuits, France, capable of processing 400,000 tons/y. The project is part of the plan to convert the Grandpuits Refinery into a zero-crude platform that will include a Bio-Refinery, where NextChem is already engineering Europe’s first plant to produce compostable and biodegradable plastics, with a capacity of 100,000 ton/y.
The BioJet plant, due to be operational in 2024, will strengthen NextChem’s role in TotalEnergies’s net-zero strategy as a major part of the Grandpuits Refinery zero-crude platform development, known as “Projet Galaxie”.
The “Projet Galaxie” will produce BioJet fuels by treating animal fats from Europe and used cooking oil. This new unit will be aligned with France’s roadmap for sustainable aviation biofuels, which includes a target of 2% by 2025 and 5% by 2030.
SAF (or BioJet) technological know-how is one of NextChem’s key components of its green-tech portfolio that makes Maire Tecnimont Group an enabler of the Energy Transition. Contributing to sustainable mobility through solutions to produce green, low carbon and biofuels is one of Maire Tecnimont Group’s priority goals towards 2025, within its sustainability strategy.