LanzaJet

LanzaJet is a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) company with its head office in Deerfield, Illinois. It was founded in 2020 by LanzaTech, Suncor and Mitsui, with investment from the US Department of Energy and All Nippon Airways, to commercialise its Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology.

Fuel and technology

The company says its SAF can be made from any low-carbon ethanol, and is a drop-in fuel that meets ASTM D7566 Annex A5. LanzaJet also provides its ATJ technology through licensing, engineering, equipment, products, control systems and services, and works with feedstock suppliers, fuel producers and project developers.

Production and projects

LanzaJet's contact page lists Freedom Pines Fuels at Soperton, Georgia. The company has announced projects, including Project Speedbird at Wilton International in Teesside, UK, a feasibility study for a plant in Colombia, and a Japan project with Mitsui and Cosmo Oil. It says announced projects represent more than 300 million gallons of annual SAF capacity.

Company facts

• Founded in 2020
• ASTM approval for the ethanol Alcohol-to-Jet pathway in 2018, according to its history page
• Partnership with Microsoft announced in June 2025