Wellington
LanzaTech , the Auckland-based companythat uses bacteria to convert steel mill smokestack waste gas to ethanol, has made the GlobalCleantech Top 100.
The list is compiled by the Cleantech Group ,which provides global market research, events and advisory services, and is run in collaborationwith the UK’s Guardian News and Media and sponsored by Autodesk.
LanzaTech was one of 4,616 nominations and made a short list of 218. In September the companyannounced a new-product breakthrough – successfully producing 2,3-Butanediol (2.3-BD), a keypolymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels building block, using its gas fermentationtechnology.
It joins a list of investors and corporations active in cleantech innovation, including EmeraldTechnology Ventures, VantagePoint Venture Partners, BASF, GE, Procter & Gamble and Siemens.
“The honour is a real tribute to LanzaTech’s international team and the research anddevelopment led by chief scientist Sean Simpson,” said its chief executive, Jennifer Holmgren.
“We have made significant strides in 2010 and this recognition validates our unique gas tofuels and chemicals technology in the global cleantech arena,” she said.
In the past four months, LanzaTech has announced partnerships with China’s Baosteel, Henan Coaland Chemical Industrial Corporation and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.