With an aim to become an AI-based, high-value materials company, LG Chem has plans to invest 9.7 billion dollars in R&D by 2035. The firm will also focus on semiconductor, mobility, and robotics materials.

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.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of July 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Gradiant developing the world’s first fully integrated lithium production facility to Veolia developing UK's first closed-loop pet recycling facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

KBR’s Pure SAF technology has been chosen for Northern Europe’s largest SAF and e-SAF production plant. With the help of this technology, the facility is expected to produce 100,000 tons of sustainable aviation fuel and e-SAF annually.

Nissan Chemical has plans to develop a new herbicide manufacturing facility at its consolidated subsidiary in India, Nissan Bharat Rasayan. The new plant is expected to be completed and begin operations in fiscal year 2028.

BASF’s newly established Core Transformation Office drives the implementation of cross-unit transformation projects across all core businesses, service units and corporate center units. The program ‘Coreshift’ aims to achieve up to 20 % net cash fixed cost savings in the core by 2029, compared with the 2024 baseline.

Under a MOU signed between Moeve and Zaffra, both the companies will work together to advance European aviation fuel decarbonization by jointly assessing the feasibility of developing e-SAF facilities in Southern Spain.

The North Sea Port in Ghent, Belgium has been selected as the permanent site for Europe’s first commercial-scale Alcohol-to-Jet Sustainable Aviation Fuel facility using the Lanzajet ATJ Process.

Total Energies and Holcim have inaugurated Europe’s largest floating solar power plant in Obourg, Belgium. With a capacity of 31 MW, the plant’s renewable energy will be consumed by Holcim’s industrial facilities.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has successfully conducted a demonstration of an integrated production process for synthesizing liquid fuels through an integrated process utilizing SOEC Co-Electrolysis and FT Synthesis.