Todays Latest Updates:  12 January 2026

Ethanol Japan. LanzaTech Global, Inc. announced the successful operational results at the municipal solid waste (MSW) to ethanol pilot plant in Kuji City, Iwate, Japan owned and operated by longstanding partner, SEKISUI CHEMICAL CO., LTD. This 1/10th commercial scale facility, with the capacity to produce approximately 400 tons of ethanol per year, operated for nearly four years following mechanical completion in April 2022. Throughout this period, the plant demonstrated that LanzaTech’s gas fermentation platform can reliably process highly inhomogeneous, unsorted mixed non-recyclable waste streams—materials that would otherwise be destined for landfill or incineration. Link 12/01/2026.

Ethanol: USA. POET is expanding POET Bioprocessing – Shelbyville, doubling the facility’s bioethanol production capacity. The expansion will double POET – Shelbyville’s bioethanol production from 98 million gallons to 193 million gallons. Link 12/01/2026.