LanzaTech selects Saltend for £600m sustainable aviation fuel project

LanzaTech Global has announced Saltend Chemicals Park in Humberside as the preferred site for its DRAGON II project, a £600 million (€689 million) investment aimed at producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel at scale.
Once operational, the facility is expected to deliver around 80,000 tonnes of SAF annually alongside 8,000 tonnes of renewable diesel.
The project is set to support approximately 300 skilled jobs during construction and 150 permanent roles once operational.
Saltend Chemicals Park, owned by px Group, part of Ara Partners’ industrial decarbonisation portfolio, was selected following a comprehensive assessment of sites across the UK. The park offers established infrastructure, utilities, deep-water jetty access and a fully managed site services platform.
DRAGON II forms part of LanzaTech’s wider Project DRAGON programme, which also includes DRAGON I in Port Talbot, South Wales. Both projects will use the LanzaJet® Alcohol-to-Jet process. In July 2025, the UK Government awarded LanzaTech £6.4 million from the Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuels Fund, helping to accelerate development.
Construction of the Humberside facility is scheduled to begin in the second half of 2027, with operations expected to commence in 2030.
The project will convert waste carbon dioxide and green hydrogen into ethanol using LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology, before upgrading it into Power-to-Liquid SAF.