September 2009
BioJet Corporation (www.biojetcorp.com) has entered into an off-take letter of intent with a major distributor to sell 2.0 million bbl of biojet fuel for 2 years or 4.0 million bbl.
August 24, 2009
EU: Nearly 4,000 airlines must reduce emissions or face ban. The European Union (EU) released a list of nearly 4,000 companies including commercial airlines, private jet operators and air forces around the globe that must reduce their emissions or face a European airport ban.
August 2009
The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) welcomes BioJet Corporation. CAAFI is the U.S. coalition of airlines, engines manufacturers, energy producers, researcher, international participants and U.S.
Prestigious EPFL, responsible for setting minimum sustainability standards worldwide. EPFL this week appointed Mitch Hawkins, CEO of BioJet Corp., as a member of the Industrial Biofuel Producers Chamber of
government agencies leading the development and deployment of alternative jet fuels for commercial aviation.
July 14, 2009
BioJet Corporation founds the World BioJet Alliance, a non-profit, independent and impartial global organization founded to promote, conduct research, coordinate communications and provide innovative solutions for advanced biofuels used in aviation. Mitch Hawkins serves as founding Chairman of the Board of Governors.
June 24, 2009
Key subcommittee of certifying body of ASTM International (American Society for Testing and Materials) passed specifications for non-petroleum-based fuels.
- Airline commercial use of alternative fuels has moved closer to reality after a key subcommittee of certifying body ASTM International passed specifications for non petroleum-based fuels, currently known as D-XXXX, on 24 June.
- The aviation fuels subcommittee at ASTM, a voluntary standards development organization, voted in favour of specifications that will enable commercial aircraft to operate with blends of generic synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) derived from the Fischer-Tropsch process.
- Commercial airlines, as well as private operators and the military, will be able to use up to 50% blends of Fischer-Tropsch synthetic fuels with standard petroleum-derived jet fuel once ASTM finalises specifications.
June 15, 2009
BioJet receives $4 million equity funding commitment from Lambert Private Equity Fund.
June 10, 2009
Boeing, UOP release biofuels flight data; certification as soon as 2010; UOP to license technology this summer.
At the Paris Air Show Boeing and a series of partners involved in four biofuels-based test flights released the data from the tests, and said that with the release they are on a path towards flight certification of biofuels as soon as early as 2010. The managing director of Environmental Strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Billy Glover, said that the group, which includes UOP Honeywell and the US Air Force Research Lab, is preparing a submission to ASTM that will qualify what the group is now calling Bio-SPK fuel.
April 15, 2009
Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne (EPFL) appoints American on board.
Prestigious EPFL, responsible for setting minimum sustainability standards worldwide. EPFL this week appointed Mitch Hawkins, CEO of BioJet Corp., as a member of the Industrial Biofuel Producers Chamber of
the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels.
April 13, 2009
World’s largest biojet source contract signed between BioJet Corporation and Abundant Biofuels.
- The agreement ramps quickly to 5 million barrels per year and remains at that level for more than a decade with pricing indexed to price fluctuations of WTI crude petroleum oil.
February-March, 2009
Additional successful flight test by Continental & Japan Airlines.
- The International Air Transport Association (IATA) calls for 10% alternative fuel blend in jet fuels by 2017 – 200 million barrels per year.
February 18, 2009
More than 2,700 airlines face EU carbon regulation. Airlines from all over the world are included in the list, after the EU agreed to cap emissions from all aircraft that land and take off within the 27 nation-bloc beginning January 2012.
January 1, 2009
BioJet Corporation (formerly JatrophaBioJet) is formed as a collaboration of Abundant Biofuels Corporation, South Polar Carbon Asset Management Ltd. (Zurich) and Mitch Hawkins & Company, Inc.
December 30, 2008
World’s first biofuel test flight. Air New Zealand conducts the first aviation test flight powered by a second-generation biofuel. http://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/aboutus/biofuel-test/default.html
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