Sasol Chemicals, a business of Sasol Ltd., and German startup INERATEC have signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) committing to the supply of Sasol’s next generation catalyst as soon as the development cycle is completed in 2026.

INERATEC operates the largest Power-to-Liquid (PtL) facility worldwide – called ERA ONE – for the production of e-Waxes and e-Fuels. The facility’s annual production target of up to 2,500 tons of sustainable e-Fuels is enabled by Sasol’s current state-of-the-art Cobalt FT catalyst. The introduction of the next generation catalyst will allow the facility to exceed the current capacity and improve the e-kerosene yield by 15%.

“To date, the necessary feedstocks for e-SAF, such as green hydrogen, are quite scarce,” explains Dirk Uys, VP Sales South African Chemicals. “That’s why improving yields is the most important lever we have at the moment to make large-scale commercialization feasible.” From the earliest tests to the recent plant opening, Sasol Chemicals has provided INERATEC with its benchmark catalysts based on the company’s proprietary Fischer-Tropsch know-how.

The LoI marks another milestone in the two companies’ on-going collaboration that also extends to the German-South African CARE-O-SENE research project, where both are consortium partners.