LanzaTech

History

Year	Detail
2005	Dr. Sean Simpson and Dr. Richard Forster founded LanzaTech to transform waste carbon into sustainable raw materials for everyday products.
2015	LanzaTech and the IOC-DBT Center for Advanced Bio-Energy Research, an entity co-funded by India's Department of Biotechnology and Indian Oil Corp. Ltd., developed a process for recycling carbon dioxide into omega-3-rich fatty acids.
2016	ArcelorMittal, LanzaTech, and Primetals Technologies collaborated to develop a facility worth $96.3 million in Belgium.
2017	Indian Oil Corp. Ltd. announced a statement of intent with LanzaTech to construct the world's first refinery gas to the ethanol plant.
2020	The company partnered with L'Oréal and Total Energies to make polyethylene for packaging using a process that converts captured industrial carbon emissions into ethanol and then into ethylene, which is then polymerized into polyethylene for sustainable packaging.
2020	LanzaJet was founded to accelerate the commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel technology. It focuses on producing SAF from low-carbon ethanol using its patented alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technology.
2021	The company granted 1,000 patents, demonstrating its advanced technology for converting waste carbon into valuable fuels, chemicals, and materials.