LanzaTech, as part of the FLITE (Fuel via Low carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, has selected North Sea Port, Ghent (Belgium), as the site for Europe’s first commercial-scale alcohol-to-jet SAF facility. It will be the first in Europe to use the LanzaJet ATJ Process.
This €500 million facility will produce 79,000 tonnes of SAF and 9,000 tonnes of renewable diesel annually.
The announcement follows hot on the heels of Lanzajet selecting Saltend, Humberside as the site for its Dragon 2 project in the UK, another major milestone in the company’s growing European SAF portfolio.
In a statement on LinkedIn, the company said: ‘With FLITE fuel designed to compliant with CORSIA, EU ReFuelEU Aviation, and the UK SAF Mandate, and Dragon 2 advancing in parallel, LanzaTech is demonstrating that the alcohol-to-‘et pathway is real, scalable, and investment-ready. We are proud to be partnering with North Sea Port and the broader Ghent industrial ecosystem and to be building on the proximity to our friends at ArcelorMittal’s Steelanol plant just across the canal.’
This project receives funding from the EU_H2020 Research & Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 857839.
