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  • Oz renewable companies struggle to crack China’s boom

    March 15, 2013 - no Comments

    China is investing billions into cleaning up its polluted environment, creating what should be a boom for the Australian clean technology energy sector, but local companies are struggling to get

  • More awards for LanzaTech

    February 8, 2013 - no Comments

    New Zealand-founded biofuels company LanzaTech has received more recognition for their innovative technology, this time from Forbes magazine. The US business magazine has named the biotech company as one of

  • Algae. Tec. in biofuels deal with Lufthansa

    September 21, 2012 - no Comments

    Australian biofuels developer Algae. Tec. has signed a deal with German airline Lufthansa to construct a large scale plan to produce aviation biofuels from algae. The plant will be located

  • LanzaTech aims to fuel Virgin flight by 2014

    September 18, 2012 - no Comments

    NZ biofuels developer LanzaTech is seeking technology partners to convert steel industry waste into jet fuel for aeroplanes and could start supply biofuels to the Virgin fleet by 2014, Chief

  • World Economic Forum recognises LanzaTech

    August 31, 2012 - no Comments

    New Zealand bio-fuel developer LanzaTech has been named a “Technology Pioneer” for 2013 by the World Economic Forum. The Forum accredited the Auckland company as “an industry-changing company with the

  • LanzaTech produces low carbon industrial chemical

    August 29, 2012 - no Comments

      Auckland biofuels developer LanzaTech and Kansas based nylon producer Invista have signed an agreement to develop and produce a bio-based butadiene. LanzaTech has developed a unique process which creates

  • Bluescope inks deal with Lanzatech

    March 20, 2012 - no Comments

    NZ biofuels developer Lanzatech has signed an agreement with Australian steelmaker Bluescope for the company’s waste gases to fuels process. Bluescopes NZ Steel plant at Glenbrook, outside of Auckland, built

  • Lanzatech raises US$55 million

    February 3, 2012 - no Comments

    NZ biofuel developer Lanzatech has secured US$55 million in funding from a range of investors, some from Malaysia. Petronas Technology Ventures – the investment arm of oil and gas giant

  • LanzaTech buys US biofuel plant

    January 17, 2012 - no Comments

    NZ biofuel company LanzaTech has paid US$5.1 million for a biofuel plant in the US state of Georgia in a corporate firesale. LanzaTech CEO Dr Jennifer Holmgren says her company

  • LanzTech wins US jetfuel contract

    December 9, 2011 - no Comments

    Auckland biofuel company LanzaTech has been awarded a US Federal Aviation Administration contract to produce alternative jet fuel. The company used a proprietary process to take industrial waste gases and