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LanzaTech gets into the Global Cleantech 100

LanzaTech’s energy technology gets it into the Global Cleantech Top 100


By Peter Kerr for sticK

(sticK - Oct. 14 2010 ) LanzaTech, the Auckland-based company that uses bacteria to convert steel mill smokestack waste gas to ethanol, has made the Global Cleantech Top 100.

The list is compiled by the Cleantech Group, which provides global market research, events and advisory services, and is run in collaboration with 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 company announced a new-product breakthrough – successfully producing 2,3-Butanediol (2.3-BD), a key polymers, plastics and hydrocarbon fuels building block, using its gas fermentation technology.

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