10 June, 2025 16:54:34 IST 
Diversified American conglomerate Honeywell, UK-based catalysts major Johnson Matthey, Dutch sustainable energy firm Gidara Energy and Korean engineering company Samsung E&A have announced a technology alliance to bring a novel end-to-end solution to market for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from biomass and municipal solid waste.
By collaborating, the companies plan to introduce a new joint technology offering that leverages the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) production process and aims to unlock abundant, globally available feedstock options to help meet the growing demand for SAF. The joint approach aims to expedite project timelines and provide customers with a single point of accountability for project execution and product guarantees, ensuring communication, coordination and reliability throughout the SAF production process.
With the resources of all four companies, the integrated and modular solution is expected to reduce the time between feasibility study and facility startup by more than 15% and can reduce capital expenditures by up to 10%.
The non-exclusive full-service offering that is planned to be launched by the partners will include:
- Gidara Energy’s proficiency in gasification and syngas production for feedstock transformation.
- Johnson Matthey’s advanced catalysts and technology for syngas to fuels.
- Honeywell’s process technology and digital automation solutions.
- Samsung E&A’s expertise in engineering, procurement, construction and project execution management.
Over the near-term, the collaboration aims to scale the use of gasification and FT SAF production methods, while enabling biomass and municipal solid waste to be used as feedstocks. As the SAF industry faces limits of traditional feedstocks, this production method is becoming increasingly important with the International Energy Agency reporting that biofuels produced from waste and nonfood energy crops will meet more than 40% of total biofuel demand by 2030.
The new alliance builds on the strong synthetic fuel collaboration between Johnson Matthey and Honeywell to provide methanol-to-jet and FT pathway solutions.
