Boeing and Embraer Collaborate on Aviation Biofuel Research Center in Brazil

Boeing and Embraer have opened an aviation biofuel research center to further establish the aviation biofuel industry in Brazil.

At the Boeing-Embraer Joint Research Center in the São José dos Campos Technology Park, the companies will coordinate research on technologies that would create a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in Brazil with Brazilian universities and institutions.

"Our purpose is to support work on developing and maturing the knowledge and technologies needed to establish a sustainable aviation biofuel industry in Brazil with global reach," said Mauro Kern, executive vice president of engineering and technology at Embraer. "Brazil has shown its potential and is already a benchmark for the clean-energy industry, having created very successful ethanol and biodiesel industries."

This is just the latest in a series of collaborative efforts by Boeing, Embraer and Brazilian partners on sustainable aviation biofuels in the past three years. In 2014, both companies signed a collaboration agreement to jointly conduct and co-fund research and share intellectual property developed through the center.