The new facility is expected to initially convert up to one million tons of municipal solid waste annually, later it can be expanded up to four million tons of waste, to produce 67,000 tons of green hydrogen and one million tons of CO₂.

A Saipem and Clough joint venture has entered into an agreement with Perdaman Industries for developing a urea plant in Western Australia. With an expected capacity of producing 2.14 million tons of urea annually, the plant will make use of Saipem’s Snamprogetti Urea technology.

Minebea Intec is now offering the required certification for scales in the pharmaceutical industry to meet GMP requirements. The move is being carried out in accordance with the new chapter 2.1.7 of the European Pharmacopeia. The firm is also offering high-precision scales for exact weighing.

With Chemours’ growing hydrogen economy business, the company has plans to explore capacity investments in ionomers which will further support the development of water electrolysis and fuel cells.

Equinor has transferred its participating interests in four Russian joint ventures to Rosneft. The move to exit all its joint ventures in the country was announced earlier in February by the company as a protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Toyo Engineering together with Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company (PIHC) and Pupuk Iskandar Muda (PIM) will be conducting a feasibility study for green ammonia production at PIM’s existing fertilizer plants in Indonesia. The contract for this study has been awarded by the Government of Japan as it intends to use 3 million tons of ammonia annually as fuel in 2030.

With an aim to increase production capacity for optical brighteners amidst growing demand across the globe, BASF made the hefty investment at its Monthey site. The significant increase in production capacity at the site has now been achieved.

Técnicas Reunidas has bagged a contract for project management, engineering, procurement and construction management and supervision services for Ineos’ mega ethylene facility in Europe. Claimed to be a milestone project in the European chemical sector, the plant will be built in the Belgian port of Antwerp and will have a production capacity of 1.5 million tons annually.

Petróleo Brasileiro has awarded an EPCC contract to Toyo Engineering to build a new diesel oil hydrotreating unit and hydrogen recovery unit at the replan refinery in Brazil. The project is expected to boost production of S-10 diesel (ultra-low sulfur diesel) by 63,000 bpd.

Hydeal España, the world's largest integrated renewable and competitive hydrogen hub has selected four EPC companies – Vinci Construction, Técnicas Reunidas, Power China Guizhou Engineering and TSK to carry out the technical design, architecture and supply chain of the first Hydeal España plants in order to produce renewable hydrogen.