With an aim to strengthen the Thailand petrochemical industry’s competitiveness on the global stage, PTT Global Chemical and SCG Chemicals intend to combine their olefins and polyolefins businesses in the country.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Repsol investing 800+ million euros for a renewable methanol project in Europe to Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s CCU technology being selected for ammonia, urea plants in Egypt, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Adnoc has recently unveiled more than 16.3 billion dollars in local manufacturing opportunities through 2030 in the UAE. The announcement was made at the second ‘Make it with Adnoc Forum’.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2025’ from all over the world. Right from BASF reaching two major milestones at its Zhanjiang Verbund site in China to Yokogawa deploying multiple autonomous control AI agents at a Saudi gas plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Bayer has plans to invest 2.2 billion dollars for developing a new pharmaceutical manufacturing site in New Albany, Ohio, U.S. With this move, the company intends to grow its pharmaceuticals business and to meet the demand of its customers in the country.

Air Liquide has entered into a binding agreement with Macquarie Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Fund 2 to acquire DIG Airgas, one of the leading integrated gas players in South Korea, for 2.85 billion euros.

BASF’s new acid chlorides and chloroformates production plant is a fully modernized plant located at its Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany. The low three-digit million-euro investment includes a fundamental renewal of the production infrastructure for acid chlorides and chloroformates and increases production capacity at the site by approximately 30 %.

Nouryon has secured clearance to supply Cekol CMC-Na—a carboxymethyl cellulose plant-based excipient used to bind, thicken and stabilize formulations—for pharmaceutical manufacturing.

UPM’s biorefinery converts lignocellulosic biomass, primarily wood from sustainably managed forests and sawmill residues, into biochemicals. With an annual capacity of 220,000 tonnes, the project is expected to be the largest facility of its kind in the world.

Technip Energies has secured multiple contracts by Petkim for the development of an integrated petrochemical complex in Aliağa, Türkiye. The scope of the contracts includes the license for a world-scale mixed-feed ethylene cracking unit, as well as the integrated PDP and Feed services for the overall complex.