PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2026’ from all over the world. Right from Ineos’ Project One modules arriving safely in Antwerp from the Strait of Hormuz to Maire winning multiple contracts worth 50 million euros, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Carbon capture is one of the most important technologies for slashing carbon emissions from industrial plants and various players have introduced innovative separation technologies which plays a crucial role in carbon capture systems. Read on to know more about three prominent separation technologies in the market.

Chemicals company BASF is starting production of renewable ammonia in Ludwigshafen, making it a pioneer in Central Europe. Two new products based on green hydrogen will be used as sustainable alternatives in the ammonia value chain.

BASF has introduced a modern amine catalyst – Lupragen N 208 to its portfolio of Lupragen amine catalysts for the production of polyurethane foams. The low-VOC polyurethane catalyst will be produced at the firm’s Ludwigshafen Verbund site in Germany.

Europe’s chemical industry is sliding into crisis as rising energy costs, weak demand, and dwindling investments force widespread plant shutdowns. Without swift policy intervention, the region risks losing its industrial backbone to competitors in lower cost, faster growing markets.

CBSP has chosen Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s Envinox technology for two of its nitric acid production facilities in Australia. In 2025, Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s technology was successfully installed and commissioned at CSBP’s nitric acid ammonium nitrate 3 plant.

With an aim to expand its production capacity for semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid, BASF has plans to invest in a new semiconductor-grade sulfuric acid plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany. The project is expected to meet the growing demand for advanced semiconductor chip manufacturing across Europe.

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.

Under a joint development agreement signed between BASF and Exxonmobil, both the companies will work together to co-develop the methane pyrolysis technology which will also include the development of a demonstration plant.

Claimed to be one of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps for CO2-free steam generation, BASF’s industrial heat pump at the Ludwigshafen site in Germany is expected to produce up to 500,000 tons of CO2-free steam per year. With a thermal output of around 50 MWs, the mega heat pump has the potential to reduce CO2 emissions at the site by up to 100,000 tons per year.