Unipetrol to increase aviation fuel capacity to 200,000 tonnes per year

Unipetrol – part of the PKN Orlen Group – has launched production of aviation fuel at its refinery in Litvínov, which will increase the production capacity in this segment by approx. 30 percent to the level about 200,000 metric tonnes per year, PKN Orlen has reported. Unipetrol is the only producer of JET A-1 aviation fuel in the Czech Republic, and, in cooperation with PKN Orlen, is a fuel supplier to the Václav Havel airport in Prague.