Plenary and Keynote Speakers_Basel 2025

Kristof Verbeeck

The Steelanol facility at ArcelorMittal‘s steel plant in Ghent is Europe’s first industrial installation of its kind, and the largest facility built to date utilizing gas fermentation technology globally, designed to produce 80 million liters of ethanol annually. The flagship project of Steelanol demonstrates the possibility to produce products and fuels at industrial scale through an innovative fermentation process, capturing steel mill waste gases and convert these in circular ethanol. The application of this microbial gas conversion platform significantly advances ArcelorMittal’s carbon capture and utilization (CCU) capabilities and enhances steel’s role in the circular economy.