PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of January 2026’ from all over the world. Right from BASF starting up its steam cracker at the Verbund site in China to Wood securing a contract for the world's first full-scale iron nitride permanent magnet plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With an aim to accelerate localized innovation and customer collaboration in China, Nouryon has recently launched its new innovation center in Shanghai, China. The facility will significantly enhance the company’s technical capabilities with investments in testing and analytical equipment focused on high-growth sectors like agriculture, electronics, construction and pharmaceuticals.

ACG has plans to invest 200 million dollars in the USA under which 100 million dollars will be used to develop its first hard-shell capsule facility in Atlanta and another 100 million dollars will be used to expand its capacity and capabilities in the region.

Praj Industries utilized Axens’ Jetanol technology to demonstrate its Ethanol-to-Jet (EtJ) process at its fully integrated SAF plant in India. With this, the plant has now proven its technological readiness for both AtJ pathways.

With an aim to meet the growing demand for dispersions in Türkiye, the Middle East, and Northwest Africa, BASF has expanded the production capacity for dispersions for the architectural coatings and construction industries at its Dilovası plant in Türkiye.

With a whooping investment of 4+ billion euros, Project One—Europe’s most sustainable cracker—is the largest investment in the region’s chemical sector in the past 2 decades. The project is expected to produce 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene annually and will have a carbon footprint of less than half of the 10 % best-performing steam crackers in Europe!

Schütz presented Ecobulk SX-D-Ov, a new variant of its double-wall IBC system at Fachpack 2025. This model combines maximum fire and leakage protection with the possibility of practical product discharge from below – another step towards complying with the increasing demands on safety and efficiency in sensitive supply chains.

Johnson Matthey and Honeywell technologies have been chosen by USA Bioenergy for its new SAF facility in Texas, USA. With the help of these technologies, the plant aims to produce synthetic paraffinic kerosene.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has announced that it has achieved the target performance of over 99.5 vol % ethanol purity, which meets domestic fuel standards, at a pilot plant for membrane dehydration systems installed at MHI's Nagasaki Carbon Neutral Park within the Nagasaki District Research & Innovation Center in Japan.

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