LanzaJet

LanzaJet is a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) company. It works to decarbonize aviation with SAF that is compatible with existing aircraft and infrastructure. Its head office is in Deerfield, Illinois.

The company offers its patented Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology. The technology can use any source of low-carbon ethanol. The company says it is the most scalable solution in the market today. Its drop-in SAF and renewable diesel products are intended to help shape the future of flight.

LanzaJet provides its technology through licensing, engineering, equipment, products, control systems and services. It works with low-carbon ethanol producers, traditional fuel producers, project developers and end users across the SAF value chain.

The first commercial ATJ SAF facility, LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels, opened in Soperton, Georgia, in 2024. Project Speedbird is planned at Wilton International in Teesside, UK. It will be the UK's first commercial scale ethanol to jet SAF plant, producing over 90,000 tonnes of SAF and renewable diesel each year.

Other projects include a feasibility study for a SAF plant in Colombia with BioD. The company has also announced a SAF production project in Japan with Mitsui and Cosmo Oil, which secured government funding.

LanzaJet was founded in 2020 by LanzaTech, Suncor and Mitsui. All Nippon Airways and the US Department of Energy also provided support. Later investors and partners include British Airways, Shell, Microsoft, Breakthrough Energy, Southwest Airlines, Groupe ADP and MUFG.

The company's history includes ASTM approval for the ethanol Alcohol-to-Jet pathway in 2018. In 2018 a transatlantic flight from Orlando to London was fuelled by ATJ SAF, and in 2019 a transpacific flight from Seattle to Tokyo used the same fuel. The company works with industrial companies, oil and gas companies, ethanol producers and project developers.

Services

• Alcohol-to-Jet technology
• Sustainable aviation fuel
• Renewable diesel
• Technology licensing
• Engineering services
• Project development
• Feedstock partnerships
• Control systems and equipment