PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of November 2022’ from all over the world. Right from developing North America’s biggest PVDF facility for battery materials to establishing the world’s largest integrated polymers facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a joint partnership, Honeywell and Johnson Matthey (JM) aim to advance low carbon hydrogen solutions by producing blue hydrogen from JM's LCH technology as well as Honeywell's carbon capture technology.

With an aim to expand its business in Asia, Biontech has acquired one of Novartis’ GMP-certified manufacturing facilities in Singapore. With this move, the company intends to establish its first mrna facility in the country.

Blue Oval SK – the joint venture company of SK On and Ford has recently held a ground-breaking ceremony to establish the Blue Oval SK Battery Park, an EV battery manufacturing complex in Kentucky, USA. The complex will also comprise of two EV battery plants.

Under a MOU signed between BP and the Government of Egypt, BP will conduct numerous studies to analyze the feasibility of developing a large-scale green hydrogen production facility in Egypt.

LG Chem has plans to build a ‘Dry Reforming of Methane’ facility, a carbon mitigation facility which lowers CO2 emissions by more than 50 % and produces raw materials for plastics from CO2 captured at the plant. Proprietary technologies will be adopted for this project.

Hovione and GEA have entered into a strategic collaboration to further advance the continuous tableting technology by combining the strengths of both the companies. The partnership also aims to accelerate the adoption of this technology.

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Located in Pennsylvania, the project – Shell Polymers Monaca is the first major polyethylene manufacturing complex in the Northeastern United States which is expected to produce 1.6 million tonnes every year.

Plug Power has entered into a strategic relationship with Nikola Corporation to accelerate the hydrogen economy. Under this collaboration, Plug Power will supply green hydrogen to Nikola from January 1, 2023 and Nikola will also purchase a 30 TPD liquefaction system from Plug for its Arizona Hydrogen Hub.