Steelanol

The Steelanol Project is an industrial carbon capture and utilization initiative at ArcelorMittal’s steelworks in Ghent, Belgium that integrates CO₂ capture from the steelmaking process with ethanol production. The facility captures CO₂-rich blast furnace and converter gas streams and routes them through a catalytic conversion process developed with LanzaTech to produce bioethanol, transforming waste carbon into a low-carbon fuel rather than releasing it to the atmosphere. The project achieved a major milestone with the production and shipment of its first commercial ethanol barge, marking the transition from pilot operations to industrial output. The Steelanol facility has successfully introduced process gas into the capture and conversion system and has produced its first ethanol, demonstrating the operational readiness of the integrated CCU pathway. To support scaling and commercialization, the European Investment Bank (EIB) granted a €75 million loan to ArcelorMittal, helping fund expansion of the CO₂ capture and ethanol synthesis infrastructure.