PROCESS Worldwide brings to you the ‘Top 10 plant engineering projects of April 2023’ from all over the world. Right from UAE’s first large-scale methanol production facility to Emerson automating one of the world’s largest ethane crackers, find out all the projects making headlines here.

BASF Coatings has recently inaugurated its largest surface treatment site in Pinghu City, Zhejiang Province, China. The site offers various applied surface treatment products and solutions for numerous market segments and comprises of a smart factory which enables process automation and digitalization of the site operations for high efficiency in manufacturing and site logistics.

Under an agreement signed between both the parties, BASF will gain long-term access to Qore’s bio-based BDO which is made from renewable feedstock. With this, BASF aims to expand its portfolio with bio-based BDO derivatives, including polytetrahydrofuran and tetrahydrofuran.

Solvay has plans to separate the existing company into two different companies – Solvay and Syensqo. For this, the company has already announced its future board of directors.

With industrial firms looking to bring innovative and sustainable solutions to the market, modular plants have picked up steam across diverse sectors. One thing that stands out among all projects that opted for these modular solutions is its multiple advantages.

Located in Leuna, Germany, Linde’s new complex will be used for production and filling of the noble gases – krypton and xenon. The project was inaugurated by the German Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt, Dr. Reiner Haseloff.

Air Products Membrane Solutions has plans to invest 10 million dollars for expanding its membrane production capacity at its St. Louis, Missouri facility in the USA. The move will create additional highly-skilled job opportunities as well as enable the firm to better support its customers.

If you can’t see it, you can’t measure it, and if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it! Manufacturing excellence can only come from manufacturing visibility.

For the first-time, AGC has used hydrogen as a fuel in a demonstration test for glass production. The test was carried out at the electronics float glass manufacturing facility of the Kansai Plant, Takasago Factory in Japan.

The ‘Carbon Neutral Alliance’ was recently inaugurated at Cemex’s cement plant in Rüdersdorf, Germany with an aim to develop innovative technologies in order to establish the first carbon-neutral cement facility by 2030.