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RENEWABLE RESINS

Neste announces Japanese collaboration to enable

PET bottles production from bio-based materials

Finland’s renewable chemicals and subsequently to PET resin for Suntory
fuels specialist, Neste, has entered into to manufacture their PET bottles.
a cooperation with Japanese firms – Mitsubishi will be coordinating the
Suntory, Eneos and Mitsubishi Cor- collaboration between the value chain
poration – to enable the production of partners.
polyethylene terephthalate (PET) resin
made with renewable Neste RE on a “Through partnering along the value
commercial scale. chain, Neste can contribute to reducing
the polymers and chemicals industry’s
Neste RE is Neste’s feedstock for dependence on fossil resources, as well
polymers production, made 100% from as to manufacturing of products that
bio-based raw materials such as waste have a lower carbon footprint,” said
and residues, e.g., used cooking oil, to Energy firm, Eneos, will use bio- Lilyana Budyanto, Head of Sustainable
replace fossil feedstock in the value intermediates based on Neste RE to Partnerships APAC at Neste Renewable
chain. Japanese beverage company, produce bio-PX (bio-para-xylene) at Polymers and Chemicals business unit.
Suntory, will utilise the renewable PET its Mizushima Refinery in Okayama, A mass balancing approach will be ap-
resin to produce bottles for its products Japan. The bio-PX will then be converted plied to allocate the bio-based materials
in 2024. to purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and to the PET bottles.
PROJECT UPDATE

Technip Energies enlisted by HIF Global for Australian

eFuels facility

American renewable fuels firm, HIF
Global, has engaged Technip Energies
(Paris) to assess technology options and
initiate plant design for HIF’s first Aus-
tralian eFuels production facility, to be
sited in northern Tasmania. Once ope-
rational, the facility, located 30-km from
Burnie, will produce up to 100 million
litres of carbon-neutral eFuel annually,
which can be used in existing car, truck,
aircraft or ship engines without modifi-
cation. eFuels are made using electro-
lysers powered by renewable energy Mr. Ignacio Hernandez, HIF Asia Technip Energies to design a project
to separate hydrogen from oxygen in Pacific’s CEO, said, “This is a signifi- that will place Tasmania at the centre
water. The green hydrogen will be uti- cant step forward for the project and of an emerging industry helping decar-
lised together with recycled CO to demonstrates our ongoing ability to bonise the global transport sector. The
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produce carbon-neutral eFuels, which attract leading players in the world’s HIF Tasmania eFuels Facility is ex-
are chemically equivalent to fuels used energy transition to support our deve- pected to create up to 200 permanent
today and can therefore be dropped into lopments. We are on target to submit a full-time jobs and have output equiva-
existing engines without any modifica- development application in 2024 and lent to decarbonising around 60,000
tions required. look forward to working closely with vehicles.”

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