PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of August 2024’ from all over the world. Right from E3 Lithium building its fully integrated lithium brine demonstration facility to a revolutionary green ammonia plant being inaugurated in Denmark, find out all the projects making headlines here.

Atkinsréalis has been chosen by major pharmaceutical contract manufacturer Jubilant Hollisterstier to provide detailed design for the expansion of its sterile injectable facility in Montreal, Canada. The 109 million-dollar facility is a part of Canada’s Biomanufacturing and Life Sciences Strategy pandemic preparedness plan to domestically manufacture and supply vaccines.

Linde has plans to invest more than 2 billion dollars to develop a world-scale integrated clean hydrogen and atmospheric gases facility in Alberta in order to supply clean hydrogen to Dow’s Fort Saskatchewan Path2Zero Project in Canada.

PPG has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its silicas products business to Poland-based firm Qemetica for 310 million dollars. The deal includes PPG’s precipitated silicas manufacturing facilities in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and Delfzijl, The Netherlands.

The K-System is the most extensive portfolio of interface modules for hazardous areas—combining process reliability, flexibility, and efficiency. The product family by Pepperl+Fuchs features a broad range of functions and certifications for worldwide use in all areas of the process industry.

Lhyfe, OX2, and Velarion have joined hands to develop the mega project in Ånge municipality, Sweden. The project is expected to combine wind power with large-scale green hydrogen production to generate carbon-negative neutral products.

Motiva has chosen Honeywell UOP's aromatics technologies for developing its new aromatics facility in Texas, USA. The project is expected to produce benzene and paraxylene, which are key building blocks for medical supplies, fabrics, and many other products common to daily life.

Greif has partnered with CDF Corporation to launch an innovative redesign of its Gcube intermediate bulk container (IBC) Flex which is engineered specifically for transporting highly sensitive and liquid products under sterile conditions.

GR3N has developed ‘Made’, the Microwave Assisted Depolymerization solution which breaks down PET into its chemical building blocks in order to create new PET pellets with virgin-like quality for packaging and textiles. Schneider Electric's open automation technology was used to demonstrate the solution and help it to scale from proof of concept to an industrial level.

Mantel Capture has secured a funding of 30 million dollars for demonstrating its low cost and energy efficient carbon capture technology at an industrial site. The funding is being co-led by Shell Ventures and Eni Next.