Technology for Today and the Future
LanzaTech’s technology is like retrofitting a brewery onto an industrial site like a steel mill or a landfill, but instead of using sugars and yeast to make beer, carbon rich gases are converted by bacteria to fuels and chemicals!
Our technology is no longer just a promise, it is delivering real operational impact for heavy industries worldwide, transforming waste into value and strengthening energy resilience across borders. With support from new and existing partners, we are reshaping supply chains and demonstrating the power of circularity.
Our mission is to offer pragmatic solutions for energy security and economic strength, harnessing proven innovation, empowering global industries, and charting the path for a new carbon economy.
A twenty-year journey
2024
First-of-a-Kind Commercial Scale CCUS Project announced in Norway - LanzaTech Porsgrunn - announced in partnership with Eramet
CirculAirTM - a solution to break down barriers in the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Industry - announced in collaboration with LanzaJet
CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren recognized on TIME's Inaugural "TIME100 Climate List"
2023
LanzaTech goes public on NASQAQ (LNZA) through a business combination with AMCI Acquisition Corp. II.
4th Commercial Plant comes online in China
5th Commercial Plant comes online in India
6th Commercial Plant comes online in Belgium
LanzaTech included on Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies" list
LanzaTech named to TIME’s "Most Influential Companies" list
2022
3rd Commercial Plant comes online in China
Carbon Negative Chemical Production Announced
Direct MEG Production Demonstrated
Waste-to-ethanol facility in Japan with Sekisui starts up
2021
2nd Commercial plant online in China
Unilever detergents made with CarbonSmart™ ethanol on sale in Germany, China and South Africa
Coty partnership announced to use CarbonSmart™ ethanol in most of fragrance production from 2023
First ZARA collection launched made using polyester fabric produced from CarbonSmart™ ethanol.
Synthetic biology partnership with German chemicals giant BASF for production of specialty chemical. n-octanol.
Partnership to make EVA foam for running shoes with On and Borealis.
LanzaTech granted over 1,000 patents
2020
CarbonSmart™ ethanol sold in stores in Switzerland in Migros Potz general cleaner thanks to partnership with Mibelle.
Partnership with L'Oréal and Total Energies to make polyethylene for packaging.
Over 20M gallons of ethanol produced at first commercial facility in China, the equivalent of preventing 100,000 tons of CO2 from hitting the atmosphere.
LanzaJet is founded to accelerate the commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel technology.
2019
Novo Holdings invests in LanzaTech
ANA signs offtake agreement for SAF
ANA's Latest Jet Delivered from Boeing using a blend of drop in jet fuel produced from steel mill emissions.
First production of PET with India Glycols Limited and Far Eastern New Century (FENC)
2018
First Commercial Scale facility begins operations in China converting steel mill emissions to ethanol.
ASTM International added ethanol as an approved feedstock for Aviation Turbine Fuel Containing Synthesized Hydrocarbons for alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK)
Virgin Atlantic used sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made by LanzaTech on a commercial flight from Orlando, Florida to London Gatwick in October 2018, using a blend of drop in jet fuel produced from steel mill emissions.
2017
Positive results from First MSW to Ethanol plant in Japan
Indian Oil Corporation Limited announce statement of intent with LanzaTech to construct world first refinery gas to ethanol plant.
DOE grant to support collaborative work on microfluidics with Berkeley Lab, SNL and JBEI, creating faster and most cost-effective synthetic biology research
DOE grant with Northwestern University and ORNL to establish the Clostridia Foundry for Biosystems Design (cBioFAB) center, enabling the shift from a large-scale laboratory to a mini air free lab, the size of an office desk and access virtually any molecule, even those not produced in nature
1,500 US gallons of jet fuel has been produced from ‘Lanzanol’ ethanol.
2016
LanzaTech Awarded $4M from DOE for Low Carbon Jet & Diesel Demonstration Facility
LanzaTech Wins Major Circular Economy Award at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech and Primetals Technologies announce partnership to construct breakthrough €87m Facility in Belgium
2015
Team wins EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award
LanzaTech and the IOC-DBT Center for Advanced Bio-Energy Research (an entity co-funded by India’s Department of Biotechnology and Indian Oil Corporation Limited) develop process that recycles CO2 into omega-3 rich fatty acids.
2014
NZ Super Fund invests in LanzaTech
LanzaTech moves Head Quarters and Lab Facilities from Auckland, NZ to Skokie, IL.
Mitsui Leads Investment in LanzaTech’s $60M Series D Round
