Under an agreement signed between Topsoe and Bioveritas, both the parties will help fuel producers to license Topsoe’s Hydroflex technology alongside the Bioveritas Process to produce renewable fuels from second-generation feedstocks.

Nova Sustainable Fuels has awarded a contract to Thyssenkrupp Uhde for performing an integration and optimization study for its biomass-to-methanol project in Nova Scotia, Canada. The study aims to quantify the value of Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s integrated process for the production of over 450,000 metric tons of methanol per year.

The French Government has awarded Ineos with a 300 million euro grant to decarbonize the Lavera site in France as well as to reduce carbon dioxide emission by 331,000 tonnes annually.

On February 28, 2026 the Iran-US war began, triggering the most severe supply shock ever witnessed in the global oil and gas market in recent times. The Gulf countries supply a substantial portion of the world’s energy, and with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and multiple attacks on its energy infrastructure, industry majors in the region have suspended exports of oil & gas as well as petrochemicals under force majeure.

Construction of the chemical recycling facility, which will be used to convert plastic-to-oil, has been successfully completed at MCC's Ibaraki Plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.

Few industries are as diverse as the water and environmental sector. Keller Pressure sensors are used in a wide variety of applications in this sector. For example, they are utilized to determine flow rates and regulate water levels.

BASF has started up a steam cracker at its Verbund site in China which is claimed to be the first cracker in the world using 100 % renewable energy to drive its main compressors.

Total Energies has commenced production at France’s first advanced plastic recycling plant. Located at the company’s Grandpuits site in Paris, the facility boasts of an annual capacity of 15,000 tons.

Spray Engineering Devices has awarded a contract to Lanzatech for developing a next generation ethanol facility using sugarcane bagasse. Expected to process up to 300 tons per day of bagasse, the facility will be established in Uttar Pradesh, India, and is a key component of the "SED Smart Village" concept.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has successfully conducted a demonstration of an integrated production process for synthesizing liquid fuels through an integrated process utilizing SOEC Co-Electrolysis and FT Synthesis.