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.

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.

ABB has introduced the GCP100 gas chromatograph which has set a new standard in cybersecurity and real-time analysis of complex gas mixtures in the natural gas, biogas, oil and petrochemical industries.

A metaphor for an obvious, unresolved problem that everyone notices but no one talks about – that’s the famous elephant in the room. In the pharmaceutical industry, one specific topic immediately comes to mind: Annex 1. However, PharmaXchange at Bausch+Ströbel impressively demonstrated that this supposed “elephant” was not ignored here, but rather tamed – and viewed as an opportunity.

Hamilton’s PSD Smartsense Pump combines advanced sensor technology with tailored configuration possibilities to deliver precise performance and process control across various industries such as pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, and environmental testing.

Akzonobel has plans to upgrade its Waukegan, Illinois, facility in the US by investing a hefty amount of 50 million euros. The site is claimed to be the firm’s biggest aerospace coatings production site.

Air Products has delivered over 50 trailer loads of liquid hydrogen i.e. over 730,000 gallons in all to the world’s largest hydrogen sphere at Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The hydrogen will be used to fuel Nasa’s Artemis missions, which aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era and establish the first long-term presence on the Moon.

Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation has plans to establish, own and operate a new air separation plant in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. The new project is expected to strategically strengthen Matheson’s national network of air separation plants, particularly in the rapidly growing U.S. Sunbelt region.

Johnson Matthey has recently launched its first hydrogen internal combustion engine facility in Gothenburg, Sweden. The company aims to test cutting-edge emission control systems at the unit.

Braskem has unveiled a completely new generation of bio-based and circular product solutions at K 2025. The MDO film with I'm green bio-based PE along with Medcol: I'm green bio-based LDPE for healthcare are two of the latest solutions introduced by the firm.