Topsoe has announced Yassir Ghiyati as its new Chief Commercial Officer. He will a part of the Senior Leadership Team and will be responsible for the company’s core commercial offerings across global markets.

Claimed to be one of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation, BASF’s industrial heat pump at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany is expected to produce up to 500,000 tons of CO2-free steam per year. With a thermal output of around 50 MWs, the mega heat pump has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions at the site by up to 100,000 tons per year.

Indian Peroxide has plans to develop a 400 TPD chlor-alkali plant at its Dahej manufacturing complex in Gujarat, India. Nuberg EPC has been appointed as Project Management Consultant and EPC contractor for the project.

Under an agreement signed between Catexel and BASF, Catexel will acquire BASF’s optical brightening agent business. The transaction comprises the international business including the production of optical brightening agents at the Monthey site in Switzerland and approximately 80 employees.

Plug Power has secured a Front-End Engineering Design contract to supply a 275 MW Geneco PEM electrolyzer system to Hy2gen Canada’s Courant project. The project is expected to be one of North America’s largest decarbonized ammonium nitrate facilities.

Vulcan Energy’s Lionheart Project will be using Nesi’s proprietary Norscand electrolysis technology to convert lithium chloride into battery-quality lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM); a vital material used in electric vehicle batteries. The project is expected to have a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes of LHM annually.

Ta’ziz and The Sanmar Group have entered into two product sale agreement term sheets under which Ta’ziz will supply Sanmar with over 350,000 tonnes per annum of ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride monomer.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of January 2026’ from all over the world. Right from BASF starting up its steam cracker at the Verbund site in China to Wood securing a contract for the world's first full-scale iron nitride permanent magnet plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Saharsh Davuluri has been appointed as the new CEO and Managing Director of Neuland Laboratories. He succeeds Sucheth Davuluri who will now assume the role of executive vice chairman of the company.

Clariant has collaborated with Vertimass to accelerate the development and commercialization of Vertimass’ bio-based alcohol to liquid fuel conversion technology. The technology enables the catalytic conversion of sustainable methanol, ethanol, and other alcohols into liquid fuels that are compatible with existing vehicles and aircraft.