Sasol, Anglo American, De Beers companion to generate feedstock for renewable diesel manufacturing
Cape City, South Africa – Sasol, Anglo American and De Beers entered right into a Joint Improvement Settlement (JDA) on Tuesday morning (4 February 2025) to pilot the manufacturing of feedstock for renewable diesel. This is a vital initiative for each corporations as they endeavour to ascertain the worth chain for renewable fuels in South Africa.
Signed in opposition to the backdrop of the Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape City, the target of the JDA is to evaluate the technical and business viability of feedstock manufacturing, beginning with Solaris and Moringa plantations to generate vegetable oil. Sasol’s current belongings can take quite a lot of feedstocks, enabling them to supply renewable diesel utilizing vegetable oil faster than greenfield initiatives and at decrease prices.
Talking on the signing ceremony, Dr Sarushen Pillay, Govt Vice President of Sasol’s Enterprise Constructing, Technique and Know-how portfolio, stated:
Renewable diesel is transformative. It meets the technical requirements of standard diesel whereas considerably lowering greenhouse fuel emissions.
“Our prospects can subsequently, use it as a “drop-in” gasoline of their current gear and equipment to satisfy their greenhouse fuel discount commitments. Partnering with Anglo American, we’re investigating the event of an area and cost-effective provide chain for sustainable feedstock, utilising vegetable oil to supply renewable diesel in our amenities. As we innovate for a greater world, Sasol’s ambition is evident — to assist our prospects navigate the vitality transition whereas delivering high-quality, sustainable options for a low-carbon future.”
Anglo American’s Tasks and Improvement Director, Alison Atkinson stated:
This is a vital initiative to strengthen our dedication to lowering our greenhouse fuel emissions by 2040.
“It’s an innovation that contributes to our sustainability journey as a enterprise and our quest to take care of a wholesome surroundings by creating carbon impartial operations. We labored carefully with our De Beers colleagues to conceive this partnership given their pre-feasibility research on renewable diesel manufacturing trials inside their mining operations and host communities. De Beers can also be offering the greater than 20-hectare items of land on which the trial feedstock will likely be grown, in Blouberg, Messina; Marble Corridor in Limpopo; and the Voorspoed mine closure web site within the Free State”.
Though renewable diesel manufacturing in South Africa isn’t but at a business scale, latest market engagements point out that the nation’s renewable fuels market is promising, pushed by finish buyer calls for and their decarbonisation targets.
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Sasol, Anglo American, De Beers companion to generate feedstock for renewable diesel manufacturing, supply
