Kemira has plans to shut down its manufacturing site in Vancouver, Canada as the firm intends to consolidate its Pulp & Paper chemical production in North America. Production at the site will end during the first half of 2025 following which the production will shift to the company’s Washington site, where Kemira already produces process and functional chemicals.

Ta’ziz has awarded a 1.7-billion-dollar EPC contract to Samsung E&A for developing one of the world’s largest methanol plants in Al Ruwais Industrial City, Al Dhafra region, Abu Dhabi. On completion, the project is expected to produce 1.8 mtpa of methanol and is claimed to be among the world’s most energy-efficient methanol facilities.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Repsol investing 800+ million euros for a renewable methanol project in Europe to Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s CCU technology being selected for ammonia, urea plants in Egypt, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Mantec Technical Ceramics, working in conjunction with fellow group company Xtract Filtration Systems, is capping off a highly encouraging Q1 with the signing of an order worth around 300,000 pounds with one of the world’s leading precious metals companies.

Neste, Alterra and Technip Energies have plans to work together in order to offer a standardized modular solution for chemical recycling. The modular solution will be based on Alterra’s proprietary liquefaction technology.

The Global Impact Coalition which includes members from leading industry leaders have recently launched the world’s first Automotive Plastics Circularity pilot. The initiative is expected to revolutionize the automotive plastics recycling segment.

Lummus and Resynergi have achieved a significant milestone with the commercialization of Resynergi’s Continuous Microwave Assisted Pyrolysis (CMAP) Modules. The technology has the ability to convert plastic waste into circular pyrolysis products significantly faster and more efficiently than traditional pyrolysis methods.

Researchers have recently concluded a research project wherein they investigated different technologies for producing renewable plastic raw materials from carbon dioxide and green hydrogen.

Wacker has entered into a long-term agreement with Aymium to secure biogenic carbon for its silicon production in Holla, Norway. With this move, the company aims to replace coal for the production process.

With the growing demand for high-quality 2-Ehacid in the region, BASF Petronas Chemicals has successfully inaugurated the second 2-ethylhexanoic acid production line at its integrated site in Kuantan, Malaysia.