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EBP20 / CBG blending
What it is
Ethanol Blended Petrol at 20%, achieved in 2025, and Compressed Bio-Gas blending obligations in the gas grid. Both require fermentation, distillation, purification and gas-upgrading equipment at scale
For process equipment makers they are a defined, policy-created order stream
Impact on industries
- Policy mandates rather than commercial choice drive the capex, so demand does not depend on the customer's own return calculation
- Higher blending targets under discussion for 2028-30 extend the order pipeline beyond the current build-out
- Order flow is lumpy and clustered around policy deadlines, so capacity utilisation swings between mandate cycles
- Distillery capacity has already been built out substantially for E20, so incremental orders depend on the next blending step being notified