Todays Latest Updates: 30 March 2026

Biojet/SAF: France. German cleantech company Ineratec has launched a joint venture (JV) alongside French industrial firm Tertu to build a biomass-based synthetic fuel project. The Belair project could use around 60,000 tonnes of wood waste from Tertu’s timber-metal guardrail manufacturing to produce hydrogen-rich syngas which will be converted into synthetic hydrocarbons. Link 30/03/2026.

Biomaterials: USA. Rubi’s technology is based on a proprietary cell-free enzyme platform, which represents a fundamental shift in how critical materials are manufactured. Unlike traditional fermentation or chemical processes, Rubi’s technology uses cascades of specialized enzymes to transform abundant carbon molecules like CO2 into complex materials like cellulose polymers. This approach enables production that is both more efficient and more flexible than conventional methods, achieving advanced tunability and performance in the end materials. Link 30/03/2026.

Ethanol: United Kingdom: CropEnergies AG, Mannheim, Germany, welcomes the UK Government’s decision to provide substantial financial support to CropEnergies’ British subsidiary Ensus UK Ltd, Wilton, UK. The UK Government has agreed a funding package worth around GBP 100 million (ca. EUR 115 million) to keep the plant in a ready to operate standby mode, ensuring long term stability of the country’s supply of biogenic CO₂, renewable ethanol for fuel applications and proteins. The plant had suspended production in September 2025 due to economic pressures. Ensus is the last remaining major industrial biorefinery in the UK. In addition to ethanol for fuel applications and proteins, it provides biogenic CO₂ for a wide range of key sectors, including the food and beverage industry, healthcare and hospitals, the nuclear sector, and various industrial cooling and processing applications. Link 30/03/2026.

Feedstock: Australia. Green Biotechnology Solutions – has been established between Japan’s Nippon Steel Trading and Queensland’s Energreen and will create a large-scale pongamia tree plantation near Emerald, Australia. Planting of tens of thousands of pongamia trees began earlier this month, creating a commercial nursery and giving local landholders the ability to grow pongamia on their own properties under supply agreements with the joint venture. Link 30/03/2026.

Methanol: China. Biomethanol from Shanghai Electric’s Taonan project has been successfully bunkered onto the container vessel CMA CGM OSMIUM at Shanghai’s Yangshan Port this month. The operation marks the first large-scale adoption of Chinese biomethanol by a global shipping leader, underscoring Shanghai Electric’s expanding of its presence in green hydrogen and next-generation fuel technologies. Link 30/03/2026.

Recycling plastic: France. TotalEnergies launched France’s first advanced plastics recycling plant, with an annual capacity of 15,000 tons, at its Grandpuits site southeast of Paris. The new plant uses innovative recycling technology supplied by our partner Plastic Energy. It transforms hard-to-recycle plastic waste from French households, which is currently sent to landfill or incineration, into a synthetic oil through a pyrolysis process, involving heating the waste to high temperatures in an oxygen-free environment and under pressure. This advanced recycling process makes it possible to recycle waste that cannot be recycled mechanically. Link 30/03/2026.