Sustainability and Environment
Boeing, Comac Open China Energy Technology Center
Comac president He Dongfeng (left) and former Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Jim Albaugh sign a collaboration agreement on March 6 centering on plans for a sustainable energy research facility, just opened on August 16. (Photo: Boeing).
Comac president He Dongfeng (left) and former Boeing Commercial Airplanes president and CEO Jim Albaugh sign a collaboration agreement on March 6 centering on plans for a sustainable energy research facility, just opened on August 16. (Photo: Boeing).

Boeing and China’s Comac opened a new joint-venture facility in Beijing last week to study biofuels refinement and improvements to air traffic management. Its first project involves a study of the prospects for refining used cooking oil, often described in China as “gutter oil,” into sustainable aviation biofuel.