PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2025’ from all over the world. Right from BASF reaching two major milestones at its Zhanjiang Verbund site in China to Yokogawa deploying multiple autonomous control AI agents at a Saudi gas plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

On IFAT 2026 Shimadzu presents a unified approach to environmental and water testing that prioritises automation, ease of use and uptime to help laboratories make faster, better‑supported decisions.

With an aim to produce propylene directly from ethanol, Sumitomo Chemical has developed a new proprietary process for which it has constructed and also started operation of a pilot facility at the Sodegaura site of its Chiba Works.

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.

Eaton has introduced its new laser perforated filter elements that enable highly precise and efficient filtration. The new filter elements are made entirely of 316 stainless steel and are particularly suited for applications where soft, gel-like or fibrous particles occur.

Clariant, Borealis and Sintef have successfully demonstrated Clariant's advanced pyrolysis oil upgrading technology for circular plastics. The move marks a major breakthrough in advancing circular economy solutions for the plastics industry.

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.

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.

Pharmaceutical manufacturing is entering a digital era. From AI and digital twins to supercomputers and quantum computing, these technologies are transforming drug discovery, clinical trials, and production. As Siemens’ Andrew Whytock explains, when data is clean, contextualized and usable, and combined with high performance computing, companies can solve more complex problems at speed and the result is better quality, greater flexibility and more reliable right first-time manufacturing.

Chevron Phillips Chemical has successfully completed the expansion of its low viscosity polyalphaolefins production unit in Beringen, Belgium. With this project, the company has considerably increased its manufacturing capacity in Europe.