Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste has started producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its Rotterdam refinery in the Netherlands.
The refinery had been modified to enable Neste to produce up to 500,000 tonnes/year of SAF bringing its global SAF production capability to 1.5M tonnes/year, the company said on 9 April.
“Our SAF production capability, now also in Rotterdam, enables us to significantly contribute to the implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation and similar SAF mandates,” Neste CEO Heikki Malinen said.
“Policies like these are crucial to ramping-up SAF production and usage … At the same time, it requires support and close cooperation across the whole aviation ecosystem to accelerate the energy transition and related emission reductions.”
In addition to the recent modifications to the refinery, Neste said it was continuing its strategic growth investment project in Rotterdam which would more than double the company’s production capacity at its refinery there to 2.7M tonnes/year of renewable products.
This would make the refinery the world’s largest facility producing renewable diesel and SAF, the company said.
Scheduled for completion in 2027, the expansion would increase Neste’s total global renewable fuels production capacity to 6.8M tonnes/year, including SAF output of 2.2M tonnes.
In addition to the Rotterdam refinery, Neste has SAF production facilities at its refineries in Singapore and Porvoo, Finland.
