HCS Group
HCS Group is a planned sustainable aviation fuel project in Speyer, Germany. Its announced capacity is 60 thousand tonnes a year (75 million litres, 20 million US gallons), by the Alcohol-to-jet pathway. It is due to start in 2026. The record comes from the SAFxCHANGE producers table of December 2023.
The record
- Owner
- HCS Group
- Place
- Speyer, Germany (49.319, 8.431)
- Pathway
- Alcohol-to-jet (recorded as "Atj-SPK")
- Fuel
- sustainable aviation fuel
- Status
- planned
- Announced capacity
- 60 thousand tonnes a year · 75 million litres · 19.8 million US gallons
- Due to start
- 2026
- Where the record came from
- The SAFxCHANGE producers table of December 2023.
- Notes
- ; start_year from article 2127 (2023-08-02)
In the news latest items naming HCS Group
- 2023-11-28 European Airlines Invest in Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Meet EU Targets reuters.com
- 2023-08-02 Lufthansa Group and HCS Group to Partner on Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production biomassmagazine.com
- 2023-08-01 Lufthansa Group and HCS Group partner for sustainable aviation fuel production hydrocarbonprocessing.com
- 2022-01-01 HCS Group Joins Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany biobased-diesel.com
- 2022-01-01 European Airlines Invest in Sustainable Aviation Fuel to Meet EU Targets hydrocarbonprocessing.com
- 2021-03-01 Gevo and HCS Group Sign MOU for Renewable Hydrocarbon Facility in Germany greencarcongress.com
- 2021-02-01 Gevo Signs MOU to Develop Renewable Hydrocarbon Plant and Increases SAF Offtake with SAS biomassmagazine.com
Capacity is as announced, a year, with tonnes counted at 0.8 kilograms per litre; a plant's own figure may differ. A record "settled by rule" was read from an article by the reader and checked only against the site's rules (a plausible size, a real owner, no duplicate), not by a person. Cite as: eFlight SAFxCHANGE, HCS Group: sustainable aviation fuel plant record, https://eflight.com/saf/plant/hcs-group, retrieved 2026-10-18. Terms. To correct the record, write to [email protected].