Sustainability and Environment
LanzaJet Starts SAF Production at Georgia Plant
The facility is the first to use alcohol-to-jet technology
LanzaJet's Georgia SAF production facility.
LanzaJet's Freedom Pines renewable fuels refinery will be capable of producing 10 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel or renewable diesel a year at full capacity.

After years of development, LanzaJet has begun production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its $300 million Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Soperton, Georgia. This marks a major achievement for the company, making it the first to produce SAF at a commercial scale using ethanol as a feedstock.

While most SAF produced commercially thus far has been through the bio-oil HEFA pathway using used cooking oil, fats, and grease as feedstocks, LanzaJet’s proprietary next-generation alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) technology represents a new avenue for the industry. The ATJ process—or ethanol-to-jet as it is sometimes called—converts low-carbon alcohols, like ethanol, into a synthetic aviation fuel that meets the same performance standards as conventional jet-A.