ARC Bio reports forest-residue jet-fuel demonstration

ARC Bio says it has completed a Canadian demonstration that moved forest residue through several processing stages toward sustainable aviation fuel.

In a September 30 company update, the Montréal-area firm said its Port-Cartier joint venture produced biocrude at barrel scale, demonstrated co-processing in a fluid catalytic cracking unit and generated a jet-range fuel blend that met key ASTM fuel-property specifications.

The feedstock was forest residue. ARC Bio describes the work as evidence for a pathway from woody material to refinery-ready biocrude that can be processed in existing refinery equipment.

The announcement is a demonstration result, not the completion of a commercial fuel plant. The company’s discussion of future production capacity remains a development roadmap and will depend on financing, engineering, approvals, supply arrangements and customer demand.

The release did not announce airline deliveries or claim that commercial volumes are already available. Its significance is the reported completion of linked technical steps using Canadian forest residue.

Illustrative image: Ruben Hanssen / Unsplash Licence. Cropped and resized; the logs shown are not identified as ARC Bio feedstock.