Stage 01
Collect
Residue is aggregated from farms across the Khandesh belt under long-term procurement arrangements with farmers and farmer producer organisations. Material that is burned in the open today becomes a contracted purchase.
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Batteries can't cross an ocean, and the aircraft flying today will still be flying in the 2040s. The only lever that works on the fleet we already have is the fuel itself.
Sustainable Aviation Fuel is a drop-in liquid: same tanks, same pipelines, same engines — different carbon. The world is short of it because it is short of feedstock. India is not.
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Four residue streams, none of them food
Sugarcane bagasse, cotton stalks, soybean husk and pigeon pea waste — collected inside one catchment, bought under contract rather than gathered for free.
D7566
Built to specification
Engineered toward the ASTM standard that governs certified aviation fuel.4
Site
Chalisgaon, Jalgaon district
Inside its own feedstock catchment, on the Mumbai–Bhusawal rail trunk route, with highway access toward Nashik, Dhule and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.5
Status
MoU stage
Pre-final investment decision. We say so everywhere on this site.
Five steps from a burned field to a certified fuel.
Scroll through the conversion chain.
Stage 02
Prepare
The feed is dried, sized and densified to a fixed specification. This is the unglamorous half of the plant, and the half that decides whether the other half runs.
Stage 03
Convert
Prepared biomass is converted into an energy-dense intermediate — syngas or alcohol — through an internationally certified licensed process.
Stage 04
Synthesise
Catalysis builds the intermediate into liquid hydrocarbon chains, which are then hydroprocessed and fractionated into the jet range.
Stage 05
Certify & lift
The fuel is tested to aviation specification, blended with conventional jet fuel within certified limits, and delivered into the airport supply chain.
Feedstock
What the harvest leaves behind.
Nothing edible is diverted and no land is converted. The plant runs on by-products of food production, aggregated within a defined radius to keep both cost and transport emissions down.
Sugarcane bagasse
The fibrous residue left after cane is crushed. Already aggregated at mill gates, which makes it the easiest tonne to buy.
Sugar mill catchment
Cotton stalks
Woody stems left standing after picking, today mostly uprooted and burned to clear the field for the next sowing.
Khandesh cotton belt
Soybean husk
Processing residue from one of Maharashtra's largest oilseed crops, available in volume through the year rather than in one window.
Oilseed processing
Pigeon pea residue
Stalk and pod waste from tur cultivation, collected after the harvest window and stored ahead of the lean season.
Pulse crop residue
Impact
A plant that pays for what used to be burned.
Crop residue is burned because the field has to be clear for the next sowing and there is rarely a buyer within economic distance. A fuel plant needs that residue, which turns a disposal problem into a purchase order.
Where it goes
Into the airport supply chain
Certified blending components go to airlines and fuel suppliers under long-term offtake, with emissions reductions claimable under ICAO's CORSIA framework.4
Where it comes from
Verified back to the field
Origin records, mass-balance accounting and third-party audit run the length of the chain of custody. Without that evidence, the fuel is worth less.4
Newsroom
All coverage₹15,000 crore SAF memorandum signed with the Government of Maharashtra
Formalised on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
MoU signed with Maharashtra for a ₹15,000 crore SAF project
Site selection, feedstock basis and phased development to 2029.
₹15K crore aviation fuel project to be launched in Maharashtra
Infrastructure sector perspective on the announcement.
Build it with us.
We are in conversation with technology licensors, airline and trader offtakers, EPC contractors, lenders and farmer producer organisations. If your work touches any part of this chain, we want to hear from you.
- 1.The ₹15,000 crore figure is the investment quantum stated in the memorandum of understanding signed with the Government of Maharashtra in January 2026. Deployment is phased and remains subject to a final investment decision.
- 2.Employment of over 3,000 direct and indirect roles is an indicative estimate covering construction, operations, logistics and the residue supply chain across the life of the project.
- 3.Phased commissioning through 2029 is indicative and gated on statutory approvals, land, technology and licensor selection, feedstock contracting, offtake and financing.
- 4.ASTM D7566 pathway certification, CORSIA eligibility and ISCC or RSB sustainability certification are design objectives for the project, to be pursued through accredited bodies as engineering and commissioning progress. No certification is held at present.
- 5.Distances shown are approximate road distances to regional centres, given for orientation only. Site logistics will be confirmed in the detailed project report.