Siemens is driving digital transformation: a new business unit pools key software areas contributing to digitalization of the process industry. Bart Moors, Head of the new unit and Head of Portfolio Management Dr. Uschi Mitsching are focusing on comprehensive support for customers and their plants across the entire lifecycle, regardless of where they join the digitalization journey.

Neste has collaborated with Tepsa Netherlands with regards to the storage and handling of liquefied waste plastic in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. With this partnership, Neste aims to enhance its chemical recycling capabilities.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of December 2024’ from all over the world. Right from Qatar Energy breaking ground on a 1.2-billion-dollar blue ammonia plant to the world's first full-scale carbon capture unit reaching mechanical completion, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Lanxess has recently sold its Urethane Systems Business to UBE Corporation. With this move, Lanxess has exited its last remaining polymer business and aims to rapidly transform the firm into a pure-play specialty chemicals company.

VNG and Hycc have plans to develop an electrolyzer in order to produce green hydrogen in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. The project aims to help decarbonize industries in the region.

Bilfinger has bagged a Project Management and Consultancy contract from Egyptian Chemical Industries for its new chemical and fertilizer plant in Aswan, Egypt. On completion, the facility is expected to produce 600 tons of nitric acid per day.

Topsoe has been selected to provide its e-methanol synthesis technology and engineering support for Forestal del Atlántico’s Triskelion project in Galicia, Spain. The project is expected to produce 40,000 tons of e-methanol annually, while capturing and using c. 56,000 tons of CO2.

Air Liquide has received a 110 million euros from the European Innovation Fund for its Enhance project in the port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium. The project aims to produce and distribute low-carbon and renewable hydrogen derived from ammonia.

Clariant’s Envicat N2O-S nitrous abatement catalyst has been installed at Sichuan Lutianhua's nitric acid plant and is expected to reduce annual emissions by 275 kilotons of CO2eq. Sichuan Lutianhua received a free load of Envicat N2O-S catalyst for nitrous oxide abatement as it was a winner of Clariant’s Climate Campaign.

In the presence of Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium, Solvay has launched climate and water projects at its Paulínia site in Brazil. The investment is expected to reduce the site’s GHG emissions by 40 % and water input by 10 % annually as compared to 2021 levels.