LanzaTech Global, Inc. is a nature-based carbon refining company operating in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. It develops technology that converts waste carbon into chemical building blocks for transportation fuels, household cleaners, packaging materials, clothing fibers, and fragrances. Its gas fermentation platform turns waste carbon gases into ethanol and derivative products. The company also offers feasibility studies, basic engineering design for commercial plants, and biotechnology research and development services, and it licenses and sells biocatalysts such as microbes and media. It provides fuel-grade ethanol under the CarbonSmart brand and protein-rich byproducts used as industrial protein, animal and fish feed, and fertilizers. Founded in 2005, it is headquartered in Skokie, Illinois.