Trafigura has entered into a six-year offtake agreement with Syzygy to purchase advanced sustainable aviation fuel from Syzygy’s first commercial facility in Uruguay. Syzygy's technology has the capacity to convert biogas into SAF using renewable electricity through an innovative light-driven chemical reactor process.

BASF has plans to develop a global Digital Hub in Hyderabad, India with an aim to strengthen its existing global Digital Hub network in Europe and Asia Pacific.

The European Chemical Closures & Investments Radar 2022-2025 report, commissioned by Cefic and prepared by Roland Berger shows that chemical plant closures in Europe, has surged sixfold since 2022, reaching a cumulative 37 mt of capacity – or around 9 % of European production capacity – and resulting in the loss of 20,000 direct jobs in the chemical industry.

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.

Spray Engineering Devices has awarded a contract to Lanzatech for developing a next generation ethanol facility using sugarcane bagasse. Expected to process up to 300 tons per day of bagasse, the facility will be established in Uttar Pradesh, India, and is a key component of the "SED Smart Village" concept.

Honeywell’s UOP Ecofining process technology has been selected by SAF One Energy Management to produce sustainable aviation fuels. SAF One aims to convert used cooking oil and other waste oils and fats into SAF, thus slashing the aviation industry’s lifecycle emissions and advancing its decarbonization goals.

Dow has introduced its ‘Transform to Outperform’ plan which aims to utilize AI and automation in order to increase its productivity as well as improve shareholder returns.

MOL Group has signed a MOU with Libya’s National Oil Corporation. Under the terms of the MOU, both the parties will cooperate in hydrocarbons exploration, technological innovation as well as crude trading.

Adnoc and Taqa have entered into a 27-Year Utilities Agreement to supply critical utilities to the Ta’ziz Industrial Chemicals Zone in Ruwais Industrial City, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Under the terms of the agreement, Adnoc and Taqa will jointly develop the central utilities project which is required to enable Ta’ziz’s chemicals and transition-fuels projects.

Air Products has been awarded a supply contract from NASA worth more than 140 million dollars. Under this deal, Air Products will provide liquid hydrogen for several NASA facilities including the world’s largest hydrogen sphere at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and other NASA locations.