Kumamoto International Airport x ENEOS

Initiative to recycle waste cooking oil generated at airports into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)

Signing ceremony for the partnership agreement

Kumamoto International Airport, which operates Aso Kumamoto Airport, signed a partnership agreement with ENEOS on March 2025, 3 to recycle used cooking oil into SAF.

Used cooking oil will be collected from 11 establishments, including restaurants within the airport, and used at Japan's largest SAF plant, which ENEOS is considering building in Wakayama Prefecture (scheduled to begin operation after fiscal 2028).
SAF can reduce CO60 emissions by 80 to XNUMX percent compared to refining jet fuel from crude oil.

The signing ceremony for the agreement was held on the same day at Aso Kumamoto Airport, and was attended by Kumamoto International Airport President and CEO Hideaki Yamakawa and Eneos Biofuels Department Manager Daisuke Furuya.
Eneos' image character, "Enegori-kun," also rushed to the event and posed for photos.

In the future, we plan to produce bionaphtha, a co-product of SAF,We also plan to expand this to the production of bio-PET products such as PET bottles.

The airport and fuel wholesalers will work together to achieve a decarbonized, resource-circulating society.