Asia-based biofuels company EcoCeres plans to start up its Malaysia-based biofuels production unit in the second half of next year, a company executive was quoted as saying by Hydrocarbon Processing.
The unit would have a total capacity of 350,000 tonnes/year of biofuels, comprising 220,000 tonnes/year of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and 130,000 tonnes/year of hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), EcoCeres chief commercial officer Jeremy Baines said on 22 April.
Key feedstocks for the plant in Malaysia’s Johor region would include used cooking oil (UCO) and palm oil mill effluent, Baines added, without giving details about where the products would be sourced from.
The company, which currently operates a 260,000 tonnes/year biofuels unit in Jiangsu, China, had earlier signed an agreement with waste management firm Shenzhen Expressway Environmental to source biofuel feedstocks, the 22 April report said.
As part of the agreement, the companies would collaborate in the collection and transportation of UCO and waste oil; pre-treatment and processing; production of renewable fuels; circular economy utilisation and carbon reduction, EcoCeres said on 30 November.
EcoCeres said the partnership would source and provide it with a stable and high-quality feedstock source with International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) traceability.
According to its website, Hong Kong-based EcoCeres processes biomass wastes into biofuels and biopolymers. In addition to producing HVO and SAF at commercial scale, the company produces cellulosic ethanol, a petrol blend-substitute.
