Development of products and technologies

Neste Oil’s R&D has concentrated on developing products and technologies with a smaller environment footprint for decades. Research during 2011 focused on supporting the acceptability of NExBTL technology and further developing its already extensive raw material flexibility. R&D played a major role in the start-up of the company’s new NExBTL refineries in Singapore and Rotterdam and during the early stage of production there. This focused on testing how well different raw materials performed in the refineries’ processes and on supporting commissioning together with refinery personnel and experts from Neste Jacobs.

Neste Oil has used its proprietary NExBTL technology for producing renewable diesel since 2007 and succeeded in extending the technology to producing renewable aviation fuel on a commercial scale in 2011. R&D was central to the development of this landmark fuel.