PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of January 2026’ from all over the world. Right from BASF starting up its steam cracker at the Verbund site in China to Wood securing a contract for the world's first full-scale iron nitride permanent magnet plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

In a push to strengthen regional energy ties and reduce reliance on imports, Hungary’s MOL Group and Turkish Petroleum have launched their first joint exploration venture, laying the groundwork for broader cooperation from Central Europe to North Africa.

Under an exclusive partnership framework agreement, OQ and Royal Vopak will aim to unlock future growth opportunities in industrial and energy terminal infrastructure and sustainable energy transition facilities in the Special Economic Zone at Duqm.

Researchers have recently concluded a research project wherein they investigated different technologies for producing renewable plastic raw materials from carbon dioxide and green hydrogen.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2025’ from all over the world. Right from LG Chem and Enilive setting up Korea’s first HVO/SAF plant to the Algerian Government, Baladna, and GEA developing the world’s largest integrated dairy facility, find out all the projects making headlines here.

The Antwerp platform is an important industrial site for Total Energies and the company plans to reconfigure its petrochemicals operations to strengthen its competitiveness and to meet market challenges.

Leybold has introduced two new turbomolecular pumps for industrial and research applications. The pumps are compact, lightweight and low vibration pumps.

Under a final agreement between BP and the Government of Iraq, BP will invest in several giant oil fields in Kirkuk for the rehabilitation and redevelopment of the fields, spanning oil, gas, power and water with potential for investment in exploration.

Industry players have come up with innovative new technologies such as chemical recycling to ensure that even hard-to-recycle plastics can be recycled by converting it into raw materials in order to create new virgin plastic products. Not only this, entire value chains can now be sustainably transformed by utilizing not only recycled feedstocks but also renewable feedstocks for the production of plastics.

Gevo and Axens have plans to accelerate the development and commercialization of sustainable aviation fuel using the ethanol-to-jet pathway. Both the companies also intend to combine their technical resources to accelerate the commercialization of Gevo’s patented, next-generation ethanol-to-olefins technology.