by Erin Voegele (Biomass Magazine) Velocys provided an update on its proposed commercial-scale U.K. and U.S. biorefinery projects in its 2020 financial report, released on May 17. The company also discussed an agreement that could allow its technology to be deployed in Japan. U.K.-based Velocys has designed, developed and now licenses proprietary Fischer-Tropsch technology for the for the generation of clean, low-carbon, synthetic drop-in aviation and transportation fuels from municipal solid waste (MSW) and woody biomass. The company was originally a spin-out from Oxford University, and in 2008 acquired a U.S. company with a complementary reactor technology developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.