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Saffaire Sky Energy's joint venture partners at the facility’s completion ceremony on March 6.
Japan has completed the construction of its first large-scale dedicated sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility.
Using primarily waste cooking oil, the facility will start production in the 2025-26 fiscal year, which commences on April 1.
Located at Cosmo Oil's Sakai refinery in Osaka, the site is expected to produce 300,000 kiloliters (79 million gal.) of SAF by 2030.
A joint venture called Saffaire Sky Energy has been set up by Cosmo, JGC Holdings Corporation and Revo International to operate the facility. Cosmo and JGC Holdings each have a 48% share, while Revo accounts for the remaining 4%.
Tokyo imposed a requirement for domestic aviation fuel producers to generate SAF supply equivalent to 10% of their aviation fuel sales by 2030.
Takeshi Takada, general manager of Saffaire Sky Energy, says that the company will open a second site in Sakaide on Shikoku island that will produce SAF using bioethanol from 2029, Reuters reports. Cosmo is also in the process of securing and importing 120,000 kiloliters from Thailand’s Bangchak Corporation.
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