Crippling energy and carbon costs along with a lack of tariff protection has led Ineos to announce the closure of two of its production units in Rheinberg, Germany. The company will also focus on preserving its remaining PVC operations in Rheinberg to support around 300 skilled jobs.

With this investment, BASF aims to produce the most advanced dispersants by making use of the Controlled Free Radical Polymerization technology. High-performance dispersants are essential in coatings, inks and composites, improving pigment dispersion, color performance and system stability.

Numerous four-legged robot dogs are inspecting different spaces across the industrial plant; facility personnel are wearing head-mounted displays which helps them to get access to detailed information about an equipment or process in real time and diverse physical assets of a system or production process at the plant can be replicated into a virtual system, get ready for the plant of the future!

Topsoe’s ammonia loop technology, proprietary catalysts and equipment have been chosen for Synergen Green Energy’s ammonia project in the U.S..Once operational, the project is expected to produce 210,000 metric tons of ammonia annually.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2026’ from all over the world. Right from Bilfinger winning a contract for BP’s new green hydrogen project to Ineos securing a 300 million euro grant to decarbonize the Lavera site in France, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Meorga goes international: With new exhibition venues in Vienna and Tarragona, exhibitors gain new opportunities to reach target audiences more efficiently and to expand their market presence in a targeted way. Bernd Weinig, Director Trade Fair Solutions & Partnerships at Vogel Communications Group, is driving this forward and offers insight into the further development.

A groundbreaking ceremony was recently held by Dupont for its new Molykote specialty lubricants manufacturing plant in China. The new plant is expected to deliver next-generation lubricant solutions with speed and precision.

Under an EPC contract signed between Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and SC Turkmenhimiya, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries will establish a large-scale ammonia and urea fertilizer production complex in Turkmenistan.

Clariant will provide its syngas purification catalysts along with its highly active Megamax methanol synthesis catalysts for Europe’s first waste-to-methanol plant which will be developed in Spain.

With a capacity of 12 t/h of steam production, the boiler is expected to reduce the consumption of higher-cost fossil sources as well as slash approximately 65 % of CO² emissions-scopes 1 and 2-at Braskem’s PP 3 PLN unit in Brazil.