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Global council expects platinum demand from sustainable aviation fuel to increase incrementally
Platinum is required across all major sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production pathways, including power-to liquid (PtL), which uses the Fischer Tropsch process (FT), as well as the FT process itself, and while current platinum demand from SAF is modest, it is expected to grow significantly in the long term, industry body the World Platinum Investment Council points out. The council expects yearly SAF capacity additions to increase eight-fold from about two-million tonnes in 2024 to about 16-million tonnes by 2050, while platinum demand from SAF production is expected to increase from negligible volumes to about ... (full story)