Air Liquide has started-up the world’s first industrial-scale ammonia cracking pilot unit with a 30 tons per day ammonia to hydrogen conversion capacity at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges, Belgium, thus paving the way for new low-carbon supply chains.

Countrymark’s Indiana refinery processes 35,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Now with Topsoe’s Hydroflex technology, the facility aims to produce up to 250,000 barrels of renewable diesel annually.

PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of October 2025’ from all over the world. Right from BASF reaching two major milestones at its Zhanjiang Verbund site in China to Yokogawa deploying multiple autonomous control AI agents at a Saudi gas plant, find out all the projects making headlines here.

With a whooping investment of 4+ billion euros, Project One—Europe’s most sustainable cracker—is the largest investment in the region’s chemical sector in the past 2 decades. The project is expected to produce 1.5 million tonnes of ethylene annually and will have a carbon footprint of less than half of the 10 % best-performing steam crackers in Europe!

Merck has invested 500 million euros to develop its Semiconductor Solutions mega site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. With this move, the company aims to strengthen its global supply chain resilience.

Under a 20-year on-site gas supply agreement signed between Inoxap and Premier Energies, Inoxap will install and commission a cryogenic Air Separation Unit. The new unit is expected to supply 7000 nm3/h of gaseous nitrogen of 5N grade, 250 nm3/h of ultra-high purity gaseous oxygen of 6N grade, along with some additional liquid products to Premier Energies’ solar cell greenfield manufacturing facility in India.

LG Chem and Enilive’s joint venture LG-Eni Biorefining has broken ground for Korea’s first hydrotreated vegetable oil and sustainable aviation fuel production plant in Seoul, South Korea. The project is expected to process approximately 400,000 tons of renewable bio-feedstock annually.

Clariant will provide its syngas purification catalysts along with its highly active Megamax methanol synthesis catalysts for Europe’s first waste-to-methanol plant which will be developed in Spain.

A 54 MW water electrolyzer was recently inaugurated at BASF’s Ludwigshafen site in Germany. The electrolyzer is expected to slash greenhouse gas emissions at BASF’s main plant by up to 72,000 metric tons per year.

Emirates Biotech has launched its new line of Polylactic Acid biopolymers which are made in the Emirates. The new line offers a sustainable alternative to traditional plastics.