ArcelorMittal Achieves Ethanol Production Milestone at Steelanol Facility

LanzaTech Global, the carbon recycling company transforming above-ground carbon into sustainable fuels, chemicals, materials, and protein, and ArcelorMittal, the world’s leading integrated steel and mining company, announced that ethanol from ArcelorMittal's Steelanol facility in Ghent has achieved a production milestone whereby ethanol volumes reached a level which supports shipping by barge.

LanzaTech took title to the first barge shipment earlier this month, and the ethanol is enroute to be purified and sold to LanzaTech’s CarbonSmartä customers in fragrance and home care markets. This achievement progresses LanzaTech and ArcelorMittal’s joint strategy to develop a thriving European supply chain for sustainable ethanol produced in the region.

ArcelorMittal’s Steelanol facility is converting carbon-rich industrial emissions from its blast furnace into fuel-grade ethanol by using leading carbon recycling technology developed by LanzaTech. Ethanol production commenced in 2023, and the facility is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. The produced ethanol can be sold directly into fuel markets, or further purified or converted for use in a wide array of consumer products such as apparel, personal care, and packaging.




ArcelorMittal’s Steelanol plant has the capacity to produce 80 million litres annually of advanced ethanol, around half of the total current demand in Belgium. It expects to reduce carbon emissions from the Gent plant by 125,000 tonnes annually, thereby advancing the EU’s 2030 Climate Target Plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by the end of the decade. Project partners include Primetals Technologies and E4tech (which has since been acquired by ERM), with support from CINEA, the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency.