PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of January 2023’ from all over the world. Right from inaugurating one of the world’s largest plants for krypton, xenon production to developing the world's largest low-carbon hydrogen facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

In January 2023, Vega, manufacturer of level, switching and pressure instrumentation, delivered what it claims is the world's first level sensor with integrated cyber security. With this, it wants to send a strong signal against the increasing threat from cyber criminals, also throughout the industry.

Solvay has plans to decarbonize its Aroma Performance plant in Saint-Fons, France with an aim to make the site carbon neutral by 2026. For this purpose, the project will incorporate a new biomass boiler and source renewable electricity from a solar facility.

Evonik recently held a groundbreaking ceremony for the establishment of a large-scale lipids production facility in Lafayette, Indiana, USA. The new unit aims to offer critical excipients for the development of mRNA vaccines and other nucleic acid therapies.

Volpak has introduced its latest solution the Enflex PHS Series for the pharma and healthcare industry. Focused on flexible packaging, the stick pack solution is a unit dosage format which proves ideal to contain and deliver liquid health products for oral and topical use.

For its Industrial Merchant business line, Air Liquide has signed 52 new long-term on-site contracts in 2022. On-site production of gases proves to be an environmentally-friendly solution for customers that require a local and reliable gas supply.

With an aim to produce specialty solutions for lithium-ion battery technologies which can be used for electric vehicles, Evonik has plans to expand its fumed aluminum oxide plant in Yokkaichi, Japan. The project is expected to be the company’s first alumina plant in Asia.

Under the ‘Plasco2 project’, Evonik along with its three partners aim to turn the greenhouse gas CO2 into a raw material which can then be used for the production of C4 chemicals. The partners are working together to extract synthesis gas from CO2 and hydrogen by means of a plasma reactor using a newly developed process.

Post the publication of the Hindenburg research report on the Adani Group, Total Energies has issued a statement which reveals details about its joint investments in India in partnership with the Indian multinational conglomerate.

A research team from the Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry at Kiel University has developed a special palladium catalyst that can for the first time selectively activate carbon-hydrogen bonds.