Industry Addendum: MRO and Components
KLM commits to first European sustainable aviation fuel manufacturer
June 1st 2019
SkyNRG and its supporting bioLPG partner, SHV Energy, will build Europe’s first dedicated plant for the production of sustainable aviation fuel as well as bioLPG (liquid petroleum gas) and feedstock Naphtha, with the new facility in Delfzijl in The Netherlands to begin production in 2022. Read More »
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has made a ten-year commitment to develop and purchase 75,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel a year from the sustainable fuel production plant.
KLM president and CEO, Pieter Elbers, said: “I am proud of our collaboration with SkyNRG and SHV Energy to launch a project that will see the development of the first European production facility for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF),” he said.
“By joining hands with other parties we can build a plant that will accelerate the development of sustainable aviation fuel. From 2022, the plant will produce 100,000 tonnes of SAF a year of which KLM will purchase 75,000 tonnes.
“This will reduce our CO2 emissions by 200,000 tonnes a year which is equal to 1,000 KLM flights between Amsterdam and Rio de Janeiro.”
SkyNRG executive director, Maarten van Dijk, said “for us and our partners this project is an important milestone in further upscaling the market for SAF. We are the first to take a step on this scale and we hope it will serve as an example to the rest of the industry in the transition to a sustainable future for aviation.”
