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.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of September 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Evonik launching its world-scale alkoxides production facility in Singapore to Clariant supplying catalysts for the world’s largest electric steam methane reformer, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Borealis has plans to invest a whooping amount of 49 million euros in order to scale up polypropylene production at its manufacturing site in Burghausen, Germany.

With an aim to strengthen its position in large-scale produced-water reuse, Liqtech International launched Qureflow Max, a high-capacity produced-water treatment system at the 36th Annual Produced Water Society Conference in Texas, USA.

GEA has inaugurated a new technology center for pharmaceutical freeze-drying systems in Elsdorf, Germany. The move aims to strengthen the company’s position as a technology partner for the growing global pharmaceutical industry.

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.

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.

Under a non-binding agreement signed between Kemira and the Hazer Group, both the companies will work together to evaluate and explore commercial opportunities for the deployment of Hazer’s proprietary methane pyrolysis technology.

Digitate and Tata Chemicals have joined hands for an AI-powered spend intelligence solution which is expected to power enterprise-grade procurement.

Cefic has released a statement regarding the recently presented Action Plan for the Chemicals Industry by the European Commission. The Action Plan intends to strengthen the competitiveness and modernization of the EU chemical sector.