LanzaTech, Mitsui partner to scale gas fermentation technology

June 7, 2011 |

In New Zealand, LanzaTech has signed a MOU with Mitsui Global Strategic Studies Institute, part of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Under the agreement, MGSSI will introduce LanzaTech’s proprietary gas fermentation technology throughout the Mitsui Group. LanzaTech will concurrently execute a separate MOU with Mitsui & Co. Plant Systems, Ltd. (MPS) – Mitsui’s engineered plants business group.

MGSSI and MPS will play a strategic role leveraging Mitsui’s global position in a variety of industrial
sectors, identifying value added opportunities for the application of LanzaTech’s process.

LanzaTech uses non food renewable resources to produce fuel grade ethanol and key chemical building blocks used to make polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels, including drop in jet fuel.

Category: Fuels

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