LanzaJet opens ethanol to SAF production facility

In Georgia, LanzaJet announced the opening of the LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels, an ethanol to sustainable aviation fuel production facility. 

The company noted that this ethanol-based technology is the world’s first viable next-generation SAF technology capable of scaling production to the levels needed to decarbonize aviation through widely available and sustainable feedstock and emerging commercial waste-based feedstock solutions. 

Located in Soperton, Georgia, LanzaJet Freedom Pines Fuels will produce 10 million gallons of SAF and renewable diesel per year from low carbon, sustainable, and certified ethanol which meets U.S. and global standards. LanzaJet’s technology enables current and future supply volume to support a scaled SAF industry as well as the White House’s SAF Grand Challenge, which calls for a supply of at least 3 billion gallons of SAF annually by 2030 to tangibly reduce aviation emissions.

LanzaJet CEO Jimmy Samartzis, said: ​“Our novel LanzaJet ethanol to SAF process technology is now deployed at our commercial plant in Georgia which will convert ethanol into drop-in SAF. As we start-up the plant, we will continue to refine our technology, while launching our efforts to advance new sustainable fuels projects globally.

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