LanzaTech
Americas
Skokie
,
United States
Scaleup
FOUNDED
2005
HEADCOUNT
101-500
FUNDING
Public
Keywords:
gas_fermentation, bacteria, metabolic_engineering, CO2_utilization, biofuels, SAF, commodity_chemicals
BUSINESS
LanzaTech, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Skokie, IL, is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: LNZA) carbon recycling company that licenses its gas fermentation technology to convert industrial waste gases and CO2 into ethanol, which serves as feedstock for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and chemicals. LanzaTech holds an approximately 46% stake in LanzaJet, which began operating one of the world's first commercial ethanol-to-jet fuel plant in Georgia in late 2025.
BIOTECH INVOLVEMENT
Core; publicly traded (Skokie, IL, 2005) operator of gas fermentation using engineered acetogen microbes to convert waste CO/CO2/H2 into ethanol and platform chemicals, with multiple commercial plants licensed worldwide and downstream chemistry for SAF.
TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
gas fermentation; microbial engineering; carbon capture
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
Sustainable ethanol; Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF); platform chemicals