Nextchem awarded an engineering contract for the sustainable aviation fuel plant of TotalEnergies in Grandpuits
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NextChem has been awarded a contract by TotalEnergies to carry out a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) and supply its technological know-how to implement a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant in Grandpuits (France), capable of processing 400 ktons per year.
Press release: “Maire Tecnimont Group’s Nextchem awarded by TotalEnergies an engineering contract for a Biojet plant in France”, 03/06/2021.
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The project is part of the plan to convert the Grandpuits Refinery into a zero-crude platform (“Projet Galaxie”), where NextChem is already engineering Europe’s first plant to produce compostable and biodegradable plastics, with a capacity of 100 ktons/year.
The plant, due to be operational in 2024, will produce biojet by treating primarily animal fats from Europe and used cooking oil. This new unit will be aligned with France’s roadmap for the deployment of sustainable aviation biofuels, which includes a target of 2% by 2025 and 5% by 2030.