CM Energy’s Green Methanol Breaks Into EU Market With ISCC EU Certification

HONG KONG, Nov 19, 2025 – (ACN Newswire)– As part of the World Maritime Merchants Forum 2025, the Intelligent Ship Building Thematic Forum, hosted by China Merchants Industry Group(CMI) and arranged by CM Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (00206. HK, CM Energy), begun in Hong Kong on November 18. Throughout the occasion, CM Energy formally released its green methanol job and got the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC EU) on the exact same day. This turning point marks the main entry of CM Energy’s green methanol into the EU market, laying a strong structure for its worldwide growth.

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CM Energy’s green methanol attains a more than 70 % decrease in greenhouse gas emission strength compared to traditional fossil-based methanol. The task’s very first stage boasts a yearly production capability of 20,000 to 30,000 loads– adequate to power 2 24,000 TEU container ships for a complete year– with shipments set up to start in December 2025. Following technological upgrades, yearly output is anticipated to reach 60,000 lots.

As the international shipping market’s shift towards low-carbon and net-zero emissions ends up being a universal agreement, green methanol has actually become a core alternative for shipping decarbonization. An agent in charge of CM Energy specified that the business has actually partnered with Shandong Energy Group to construct a green methanol plant in Jining, Shandong. By retrofitting existing coal-to-methanol facilities and embracing a co-processing path that includes biomass, the task not just protects existing production capability however likewise substantially boosts GHG decrease efficiency– providing a practical service to the high-cost shift obstacle dealt with by conventional chemical plants.

Presently, all links of the job, consisting of basic material collection, biochar production, and green methanol synthesis, have actually effectively passed the extensive ISCC accreditation, making it the world’s very first green methanol task to get full-process accreditation in accordance with ISCC Co-processing Version 2.0 Guidance. The accreditation not just opens international market channels for domestic green methanol however likewise supplies a replicable course for low-carbon shift of standard chemical business worldwide through an asset-light, high-compliance co-processing design.

Wu Sichuan, Chairman of China Merchants Industry Group, highlighted that green innovation is among the 3 tactical emerging sectors under the Group’s “Third Pioneering Endeavor” effort. China Merchants Industry will work as both a “manufacturing scenario implementation and equipment innovation platform,” while CM Energy will take the lead in green energy devices and supply. China Merchants Industry is dedicated to ending up being a cost-leading, green technology-driven production business driven by technological development, led by digital change, and based upon lean management, adding to the top quality advancement of the shipbuilding market and supporting the sped up building of a transport power and a maritime power.

Throughout the occasion, Bureau Veritas, a worldwide acknowledged accreditation body, granted the ISCC EU accreditation certificate for green methanol to CM Energy. The accreditation event was gone to by prominent visitors consisting of Zheng Nanfeng, Professor of Xiamen University and Director of Tan Kah Kee Innovation Laboratory; Alexander Döll, CEO of the Global Methanol Fuel Association; Nicolas Brown, Corporate Affairs Director of Bureau Veritas; Mei Xianzhi, General Manager of CMI; Li Hongyuan, Deputy General Manager of the Strategic Development Department (Science and Technology Innovation Department) of China Merchants Group; Mei Zhonghua, Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Industry and Chairman of CM Energy; and Zhang Zhen, Independent Director of CM Energy.

As an essential platform for China Merchants Group’s green innovation advancement, CM Energy is stepping up its design in the green energy worth chain– with a concentrate on hydrogen, methanol, and ammonia– in both devices production and energy supply services. The business makes every effort to end up being a leading integrated provider for marine green energy and devices in China. Moving on, CM Energy will continue to work together with partners to broaden green methanol production capability, promote the advancement of a total green methanol commercial chain– from feedstock to bunkering– advancing the prevalent adoption of green methanol in the international market.

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