The New Zealand based LanzaTech will convert a cellulosic ethanol plant it bought from the US based Range Fuels to produce biochemicals. The $5.1 million deal completed on 3 January provides LanzaTech with its first plant, according to a Bloomberg interview with the Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Holmgren. “We have been doing a lot of work on steel mill gases and other gases to ethanol mostly, but in the laboratory we have shown that we can make chemicals,” Holmgren said. “We don’t have any assets where we can control the feedstock that are large and are able to help us… Login to continue

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