Solvay and Veolia have inaugurated a new unit for recycling industrial flue gas treatment residues at the Rosières-aux-Salines site in Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. The project is expected to process and recover up to 50 % more flue gas treatment residues per year.

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.

The tank storage industry is undergoing a significant transformation as robotics redefines maintenance, inspection, and cleaning. Traditionally, these tasks have relied on human operators entering confined spaces, exposing them to significant health and safety risks while incurring substantial operational downtime costs. Robotics promises to change this paradigm, delivering safer, more efficient, cost-effective solutions.

Under an agreement signed between BASF and Domo Chemicals, BASF has the right to acquire Domo Chemicals’ stake of 49 % in the Alsachimie joint venture of which BASF holds 51 %.

The performance testing of the world's largest all-electric ammonia cracking system has successfully been commissioned and completed by Syzygy Plasmonics and Lotte Chemical in Ulsan, South Korea.

More than 1.5 million Euros were invested in reducing energy consumption at the Traun site in Austria which resulted in total savings amount to around 120 tons of CO2 per year. With this, Brenntag aims to achieve net zero Greenhouse Gas emission by 2045.

Under an agreement signed between Topsoe and Zhejiang Jianglan, Topsoe will provide technology and services for sustainable aviation fuels production in China. The plant is expected to produce 300,000 tons of SAF annually which will initially be exported to European markets.

Price shocks, supply chain risks, and trade conflicts: When the unimaginable becomes everyday reality, can companies react at all? Do tried-and-tested strategies provide answers in uncertain times? And what exactly does VUCA stand for?

Repsol has plans to invest more than 800 million euros in the Ecoplant project. The project is expected to become the first plant in Europe to produce renewable and circular methanol from waste through gasification.

In a bid to reshape the future of textiles, chemical company Kemira and Metsä Group have partnered to develop Kuura — a next-generation, wood-based fiber aiming to provide a sustainable, European-made alternative to conventional materials like polyester and cotton.