Todays Latest Updates: 8 September 2026

Biogas: Brazil. Louis Dreyfus Company is constructing an industrial facility dedicated to generating biogas from citrus effluent in São Paulo, Brazil. The facility is being engineered to handle an enormous volume of industrial waste, processing roughly 100,000 gallons of citrus effluent every hour. Utilizing specialized biotechnology and advanced inoculums, the system is designed to effectively break down the high organic load within the wastewater. At peak operations, this biological breakdown is projected to generate more than 1.77 million cubic feet of biogas daily. Link 08/09/2026.

Biojet/SAF: Kazakhstan. US-based KBR has been awarded a contract by KMG-Aero, a subsidiary of KazMunayGas, and KazFoodProducts to provide technology and engineering solutions for the new facility. The future plant will use PureSAF technology developed by Swedish Biofuels. It is based on the alcohol-to-jet (AtJ) process, which enables the production of aviation fuel from alcohol-based feedstocks. KBR says PureSAF is a feedstock-flexible technology designed to deliver high SAF yields. The company will license the technology and provide proprietary engineering design for the facility. Link 08/09/2026.

Biojet/SAF: United Kingdom. Nova Pangaea Technologies, the UK company with a unique process to create ethanol and biochar from waste biomass for the production of carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), has completed successful endurance trials that further validate its technology. Nova Pangaea is working with British Airways and LanzaJet on Project Speedbird, an initiative supported by the UK government to produce carbon-negative aviation fuel from local waste biomass to decarbonise the aviation sector. For Speedbird, Nova Pangaea will construct four UK facilities to produce bioethanol from local wastes for upgrading to SAF via LanzaJet’s Alcohol-to-Jet biorefinery. Link 08/09/2026.

Plastic recycling: Germany. LyondellBasell has reached another milestone in the construction of its chemical recycling plant at its Wesseling site. The two pyrolysis reactors for the “MoReTec-1” plant have been installed. The reactors form the core of the catalytic recycling technology developed by LyondellBasell. Together with a proprietary catalyst, they are designed to break down plastic waste that is difficult to recycle mechanically into smaller molecules. This process produces pyrolysis oil and gas, which can be used as feedstocks for the production of new plastics. Intended applications include flexible food packaging. Link 08/09/2026.