Sustainable Business & Turning Waste Carbon Into Everyday Products

This Deep Dive features Orbia VP of Innovation & Ventures Shai Albaranes and LanzaTech CEO Dr. Jennifer Holmgren discussing how LanzaTech is transforming waste carbon into valuable everyday products. Dr. Holmgren details how LanzaTech’s innovative gas fermentation process uses naturally occurring bacteria to convert waste gases from industrial processes (like those used in steel mills) and other sources into ethanol. This ethanol then serves as a building block for producing sustainable materials including fuels, plastics and fabrics.

About our guest speaker

Dr. Jennifer Holmgren is the CEO of LanzaTech. Under Jennifer’s guidance, LanzaTech is developing a technology that transforms pollution and ensures that humans continue to prosper far into the post-pollution future. The company offers a variety of platform chemicals and fuels, including the world’s first alternative jet fuel derived from industrial waste gases.

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