PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of May 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Carbios holding a groundbreaking ceremony for the world's first pet biorecycling plant to the world’s largest direct air capture plant commencing operations in Iceland, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Kemira has plans to shut down its manufacturing site in Vancouver, Canada as the firm intends to consolidate its Pulp & Paper chemical production in North America. Production at the site will end during the first half of 2025 following which the production will shift to the company’s Washington site, where Kemira already produces process and functional chemicals.

BASF has introduced its biomass balanced ecoflex, a polybutylene adipate terephthalate that is frequently used in the compounding of biopolymers. The new ecoflex F Blend C1200 BMB has a 60 % lower Product Carbon Footprint than the standard ecoflex grade.

Nord presented a wide range of products at Achema in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The focus was on Atex-compliant drive concepts for the process industry and the robust heavy-duty Maxxdrive industrial gear unit, in particular for agitator and mixer applications. Further focal points at the trade fair was the new decentralized Nordac On/On+ frequency inverters, the revolutionary Duodrive geared motors and IE5+ synchronous motors as well as the Nordcon App with Nordac Acces BT.

Kemira and IFF have recently announced the successful completion of a market-entry scale industrial polymer plant in Finland. The plant utilizes IFF’s Designed Enzymatic Biomaterial platform technology and is expected to produce unique renewable polymers.

Gevo has taken over Cultivate Agricultural Intelligence with an aim to combine Cultivate AI’s digital agriculture data and analytics platform with Verity’s carbon accounting and tracking solutions. This move will help Verity to provide the highest quality data-driven solutions for carbon abatement in food, feed, fuels, and industrial markets.

Accelera has recently inaugurated its new electrolyzer manufacturing plant in Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. The project is expected to scale the development, manufacturing and adoption of zero-emissions technology in Spain and Europe.

Under a binding agreement signed between Plug Power and Allied Green Ammonia, Plug Power will supply 3 GW of electrolyzer capacity to AGA’s green hydrogen to ammonia plant in Australia.

Evonik has plans to strengthen its growth prospects by reorganizing its two business lines – Coating & Adhesive Resins and Health Care. The remaining businesses outside these cores are expected to be sold to new owners or incorporated into partnerships.

Honeywell has joined hands with Chevron to develop advanced artificial intelligence-Assisted solutions which have the capacity to help plant operators to make decisions with regards to enhancing efficiency for refining processes and improving safety within the industrial automation space.