Tag: LanzaTech
LanzaTech on the road for up to $80 million in new investment
Tweet In New Zealand, LanzaTech is on the hunt for new investors to put in between $60 million and $80 million this year while holding off on an IPO until a first plant is up and running, probably around 2015. The two plants under construction are for 10 million and 25 gallons each, both based [...]
BIO welcomes new member companies to Industrial & Environmental Section
Tweet In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization welcomed new members Calysta Energy, American Science and Technology Corporation, LanzaTech, The Coca-Cola Company, Lignol Energy Corporation, Neol Biosolutions, and Plum Creek. Calysta Energy uses a biotechnology solution to convert natural gas to fuels and chemicals. AS&TC has developed an integrated process for converting biomass to sugars and [...]
Looking back at ABLC 2013
Tweet As ABLC 2013 closes, we look back at 10 slides that caught our eye. ABLC 2013 has closed, and the delegates are now departing until May 18-20, 2014 when the latest in advanced biofuels goes again on display and under the microscope at ABLC 2014. After three intense days of activity, with two cabinet [...]
LanzaTech taps Shell vet as Asia head
Tweet In Washington DC, at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference (ABLC 2013), LanzaTech announced the appointment of Ken C. Lai as Vice President of its Asia Pacific operations, based in Shanghai. Lai joins LanzaTech from Shell Global Solutions International B.V., where he was General Manager of Licensing and Sales for the Asia Pacific region. In [...]
The Hydrogen Problem
Tweet HydroMan may do his hydrogen-shift thing via water, at will – but outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, we have some hydrogen issues. Psst! Like cutting out a fossil hydrogen dependency for many biofuels. But, new pathways ensure that the status hydroquo may not last for long. A numbers of readers responding to “Biofuels [...]
On the Move in Biofuels: LanzaTech
Tweet In New Zealand, Kea New Zealand named LanzaTech co-founder and CTO Sean Simpson as 2013′s World Class New Zealander for science, technology and academia. Simpson was also named BioSpectrum Asia-Pacific Entrepreneur of the Year. More on the story.
India’s Jindal Steel to invest in Lanzatech blast furnace-to-fuel facility
Tweet In India, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd is in talks with Lanzatech to implement the company’s unused blast furnace-to-fuel technology as JSPL’s facility in either Angul in Odisha or Raigarh in Chhattisgarh by end of 2015. The deal is meant to be closed within the next three to four months. When the project comes [...]
FORBES names LanzaTech to 100 Most-Promising Privately Held Companies for 2012
Tweet In Illinois, Forbes Magazine has ranked LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from gases, #48 in its annual list of the top 100 Most Promising privately held companies. In 2012, LanzaTech reached key development milestones when it became the first company ever to scale gas fermentation technology to a pre-commercial level. Working [...]
New 5-Minute Biofuels Digest Guides to Amyris, Enerkem, Gevo, LanzaTech, LS9, Novozymes, POET, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, ZeaChem
Tweet Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. This release updates 10 guides for the latest developments through Q1 2013. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, latest news, awards, and Biofuels Digest feature stories; 3 top milestones [...]
LanzaTech: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)
Tweet Address: 725-C E. Irving Park Road, Roselle, IL. USA 60172 Year Founded: 2005 Company description: LanzaTech has developed a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform that has no impact on food, water security or high biodiversity land use. The proprietary gas-to-liquid platform produces fuels and high value chemicals such as 2,3-butanediol [...]
