Lanzatech, a leading carbon capture and utilization company, and Primetals Technologies today announce the signing of a renewed ten-year cooperation agreement to accelerate the deployment of integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide.
Lanzatech’s commercialized carbon recycling platform takes emissions from heavy industry, including from the steel industry, and transforms them into the building blocks to make fuels and chemicals. Primetals Technologies builds on over 60 years of innovation in metals production and leverages the combined portfolio of predecessors Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery and Siemens VAI, founded in 1938. Today, Primetals Technologies represents one of the longest standing global suppliers bringing new technology to the steel sector.
The renewed commitment cements a shared strategy for advancing the metals industry’s green transition: Primetals Technologies’ focus on delivering multiple solutions for green steel combined with Lanzatech’s novel carbon capture and utilization (CCU) technology that turns waste to value. Under the previous agreement, the companies worked together on process integration and optimization of transforming steel emissions into commodity chemicals. Through this new 10-year agreement, Primetals Technologies and LanzaTech will enable more projects in the global iron and steel sector to adopt Lanzatech’s carbon recycling technologies.
Together, the companies have already collaborated with ArcelorMittal, one of the world’s leading steel companies, to deploy Lanzatech’s technology at ArcelorMittal’s flagship steel plant in Ghent, Belgium. The ArcelorMittal Steelanol project will convert the emissions from the blast furnace into advanced ethanol that can be used to make sustainable fuels and other downstream products—a first of its kind for the European steel industry.
Inaugurated in December 2022, this facility commenced operation at the end of May 2023, and the first samples produced were shown at a joint LanzaTech-Primetals Technologies event at METEC, the largest metallurgical trade fair in Düsseldorf, earlier this month. Once the Steelanol facility reaches full commercial-scale operations, it will have the capacity to reduce carbon emissions by 125,000 tons and produce 80 mln litres of advanced ethanol annually.
Headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, U.S.A., LanzaTech transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products.
Primetals Technologies, Limited, headquartered in London, United Kingdom, is a pioneer and world leader in the fields of engineering, plant building, and the provision of lifecycle services for the metals industry.
