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Joint venture formed to develop SAF project in France

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Technip Energies, Airbus, Safran, and Tereos have formed a joint venture called Rebound to develop a large-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production project at the Port of Dunkirk in Northern France. The facility will use the Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) pathway to produce SAF, combining engineering, aerospace, and agri‑industrial expertise to help scale lower-carbon aviation fuel in France.

What do you see as the biggest hurdle for AtJ-based SAF projects in Europe: sustainable alcohol feedstock supply, cost competitiveness, permitting, or long-term offtake commitments?

Technip Energies (Paris, France; www.ten.com), Airbus (Blagnac, France; www.airbus.com) Safran SA (Paris; www.safran-group.com) and Tereos (Moussy-le-Vieux, France; www.tereos.com) entered into an agreement to create Rebound, a joint venture to develop a large-scale Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production project at the Port of Dunkirk, in Northern France. The project will use the Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) technological pathway […]

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dee
Jun 12 at 12:00 PM
AtJ at scale lives or dies on feed pretreatment and hydrogen: how are you spec’ing Tereos’ ethanol (water, denaturant, chlorides) and where’s the hydroprocessing H2 coming from in Dunkirk’s cluster? Without tight front-end polishing and hard interlocks on dehydration/oligomerization temps, you’ll be swapping poisoned catalyst before first-year nameplate.
MikeHarlan
Jun 18 at 9:01 AM
With Tereos on board, will you start with sugar‑beet ethanol or pivot to cellulosic to maximize RED III/ReFuelEU compliance and CI scores? Also curious about utilities at Dunkirk: what’s the plan for low‑CI hydrogen for the hydrogenation step and how will you handle the naphtha/diesel co‑products given the jet cut share in AtJ?

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