PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of February 2025’ from all over the world. Right from Repsol investing 800+ million euros for a renewable methanol project in Europe to Thyssenkrupp Uhde’s CCU technology being selected for ammonia, urea plants in Egypt, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Under a MOU signed between Covestro, Fertiglobe, and Ta’ziz, all the parties will work together to explore collaboration across the ammonia and nitric acid value chains. Covestro and Fertiglobe intend to explore short-term ammonia supply opportunities from Fertiglobe’s facilities to Covestro’s sites in China and the USA.

With an investment of 16.4 million euros, Voestalpine and Verbund have plans to expand the world’s longest-running hydrogen pilot plant which will include the production, compression, purification, storage, loading, and further use of green hydrogen.

Taiwan’s plastics and rubber industry is confidently positioning itself on the global market. At K 2025 in Düsseldorf, the world’s largest trade fair for the plastics and rubber industry, 118 Taiwanese companies — representing the sixth largest exhibiting region — showcased their strengths in sustainable technologies and intelligent manufacturing.

Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis, Ruhr University Bochum and Evonik Oxeno have developed a novel catalyst system that enables the use of the climate gas carbon dioxide as a raw material for the chemical industry.

Chiyoda has partnered with Toyota to develop a water electrolysis system for a low-carbon hydrogen project in Japan. The water electrolysis system will be installed in Aichi Steel’s Chita Factory using a wind power plant owned by Eurus Energy.

Lhyfe has recently secured Renewable Fuel of Non-Biological Origin certifications for three of its sites in France and Germany, this takes the company’s total number of certified sites to four. With this, the firm has become Europe’s largest producer of Rfnbo hydrogen from the electrolysis of water.

Under a sales and purchase agreement signed between the two parties, Mitsubishi Gas Chemical will offtake approximately 1 million tons per year of ultra-low carbon methanol from Transition Industries’ ‘Pacifico Mexinol Project’ in Mexico which is expected to be one of the world’s largest ultra-low carbon methanol production projects.

Verso Energy, has chosen Honeywell’s efining methanol-to-jet processing technology to produce electro-sustainable aviation fuel at seven efuel plants across Europe and the United States.

Vega’s sensor solutions are being supplied to Nordex Electrolyzers’ 500-kW prototype for producing green hydrogen. The prototype can produce over 10 kilograms of hydrogen per hour and is installed in a modular container system.