JR Tokai Retailing Plus Provides Waste Cooking Oil from Food Factories as Raw Material for Domestic SAF
Four companies, including JR Tokai Retailing Plus and JGC Holdings, agreed to use waste cooking oil from JR-PLUS food factories to produce domestic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Starting April 2026, the initiative aims to cut CO2 emissions by 150,000 kg annually.
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Four companies—JR Tokai Retailing Plus Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Nagoya City, President and Representative Director: Hajime Kobayashi, hereafter "JR-PLUS"), JGC Holdings Corporation (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Chairman, President and CEO: Masayuki Sato, hereafter "JGC HD"), Revo International Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kyoto City, Representative Director and CEO: Tetsuya Koshikawa, hereafter "Revo International"), and SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY LLC (Headquarters: Yokohama City, Representative: Takeshi Takada, hereafter "SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY")—have signed a basic agreement to collaborate on supplying used cooking oil (hereafter "waste cooking oil") discharged from JR-PLUS food factories in the Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka areas as a raw material for domestic Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). In addition, JR-PLUS has endorsed and today joined the "Fry to Fly Project," which aims to realize a decarbonized society through domestic resource circulation.
JR-PLUS, as the core retail business company of the JR Tokai Group, has been contributing to the realization of a sustainable society through activities such as reusing waste cooking oil used in its food factories for feed and fertilizer. Through this collaboration, by providing waste cooking oil as a raw material for domestic SAF, it will strengthen its contribution to reducing CO2 emissions. Based on the concluded basic agreement, starting from April 2026, all JR-PLUS food factories will transition to an initiative to reuse waste cooking oil for domestic SAF, aiming to further contribute to climate change countermeasures. The amount of waste cooking oil to be provided is expected to be approximately 60,000 kg per year. From this provided amount, a maximum of about 55,000 liters of SAF can be produced annually, and the CO2 reduction effect is expected to be 150,000 kg-CO2.
Revo International will be responsible for collecting the waste cooking oil and handing it over to SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY. SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY will manufacture SAF using the collected waste cooking oil as a raw material at a large-scale domestic SAF production plant in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. JGC HD will lead the construction of a supply chain for the SAF manufacturing business using waste cooking oil as a raw material.
JR-PLUS, as the core retail business company of the JR Tokai Group, has been contributing to the realization of a sustainable society through activities such as reusing waste cooking oil used in its food factories for feed and fertilizer. Through this collaboration, by providing waste cooking oil as a raw material for domestic SAF, it will strengthen its contribution to reducing CO2 emissions. Based on the concluded basic agreement, starting from April 2026, all JR-PLUS food factories will transition to an initiative to reuse waste cooking oil for domestic SAF, aiming to further contribute to climate change countermeasures. The amount of waste cooking oil to be provided is expected to be approximately 60,000 kg per year. From this provided amount, a maximum of about 55,000 liters of SAF can be produced annually, and the CO2 reduction effect is expected to be 150,000 kg-CO2.
Revo International will be responsible for collecting the waste cooking oil and handing it over to SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY. SAFFAIRE SKY ENERGY will manufacture SAF using the collected waste cooking oil as a raw material at a large-scale domestic SAF production plant in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. JGC HD will lead the construction of a supply chain for the SAF manufacturing business using waste cooking oil as a raw material.