French start-up Lactips signed a contract with US packaging group SmartSolve to produce 210 tonnes of its casein-derived water-soluble polymer, a substitute for petroleum-based PVOH, following two years of joint development.

Symphony Environmental Technologies delivered its first commercial container-load of d2p EA masterbatch to Sirane Central Americana in Mexico. The delivery follows new independent ethylene-adsorption test results from AIMPLAS.

Topsoe signed a contract with Uniper to deliver front-end engineering design (FEED) for the NorthStarH2 e-methanol facility in Östersund, Northern Sweden, based on its ModuLite technology. The plant is expected to produce around 115,000 tons of e-methanol annually, with FID expected in 2028.

Sukano AG signed a capacity reservation agreement with Avantium for releaf PEF polymer, securing future production volumes from industrial-scale facilities built by Avantium's potential licensing partners.

Avantium signed a capacity reservation agreement with juice producer Hoogesteger for releaf PEF volumes from future licensed plants, building on an earlier offtake agreement. Avantium has now secured reservations for well over 100 kilotonnes of releaf.

Zoono Group received its first major commercial orders, worth about NZ$600,000, from Sharpak Aylesham, the UK arm of Groupe Guillin, under an exclusive UK soft fruits packaging contract. A second identical order is scheduled for July 2026.

Samson Controls (China) won a public tender for 91 self-acting control valves for the CNOOC and Shell Petrochemicals Huizhou Phase 3 ethylene project, with a winning bid of CNY 603,000 including VAT. The award was published on January 27, 2026.

Loop and Ester Industries' joint venture ELITe awarded Toyo Engineering India a detailed engineering contract for the Infinite Loop India PET resin plant, designed to produce over 70,000 tonnes of PET resin annually.

Ampo Poyam Valves has supplied forged gate valves, including 24-inch 1500-class units in F91 material, for the ethylene unit of BASF's CR Cluster in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China, for EPC contractor HQC.

Binh Son Petroleum Packaging and Trading JSC published a direct-bidding tender for additives used in packaging production, with a tender value of 1,448,949,600 VND. Bid closing is listed as 6 October 2025, and the notice was published on 29 October 2025.

Grupo Cobra and Masa, subsidiaries of Cobra IS, were awarded electrical, piping and industrial mechanical works for a €1.2 billion second-generation biofuel plant in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva, for Moeve and Apical, with 500,000 tonnes per year capacity.

thyssenkrupp Uhde's subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a Letter of Intent with KÖKSAN to deliver two PET resin plants, one in Gaziantep, Türkiye and one in Babylon, Iraq with Al Mutahida Packaging, each with 324,000 tons per year capacity. Completion is planned for 2027 and 2028.

Linde will supply industrial gases to a low-carbon ammonia plant in Louisiana. The announcement was reported June 27, 2025.

Avantium signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with Dutch packaging producer Hordijk, securing future PEF polymer volumes from licensed industrial-scale plants.

Avantium signed a multi-year capacity reservation agreement with Dutch packaging producer Hordijk, securing PEF polymer volumes from future licensed plants for trays and injection-molded packaging.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract for the oxygen scavenger dosing system on the EPC package of the Maoming refining transformation and upgrade ethylene unit project in China.

EcoSynthetix Inc. won a new commercial account with one line of an unnamed leading global pulp manufacturer, under a purchase order worth about CAD 1.1 million for calendar 2025 deliveries of its SurfLock strength aids.

Borouge signed four supply agreements for polyethylene and polypropylene with Bericap, Taghleef Industries, INDEVCO Group and ALPLA, plus a collaboration with Tahzeem Packaging and Rebound for recycled-content shipping sacks, valued at over $100 million (AED 367 million), announced on 28 January 2025.

Samsung E&A signed an EPC contract with Ras Laffan Petrochemicals for an ethylene storage plant in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. Samsung E&A's share is about KRW 301.9 billion (about USD 215 million) of a total KRW 588.2 billion contract, to be executed over 34 months in a joint venture with CTCI.

2M Group of Companies has signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to supply its plastic-free Morro Coating for paper board packaging across the UK. The coating will be manufactured at scale at 2M's Milton Keynes facility under its Sustainable Packaging Technologies venture.

2M Group of Companies signed a multi-year commercial supply agreement with Transcend Packaging to supply Xampla's plastic-free Morro Coating across the UK. The coating will be manufactured at scale at 2M's Milton Keynes facility under its Sustainable Packaging Technologies venture.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract for the EO product tank farm and loading facilities of North Huajin United Petrochemical's 590,000-tonne/year ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol unit in China. The article gives no contract value.

Texol Lubritech FZC, a Sharjah-based subsidiary of Gandhar Oil Refinery India, won a three-year contract to manufacture, package, label and supply products to ADNOC distribution, with an estimated annual value of $45 million.

On June 19, 2024 the 2M Group of Companies signed its first commercial agreement to exclusively supply Xampla's plastic-free Morro Coating to Huhtamaki for corrugate board foodservice containers, in a multi-year deal deployed at scale in on-the-go applications.

Anhui Hongsifang Co. published the result of its tender for acetylene mixed-gas compressor units for its 5,000 t/yr NVP expansion project, awarding the order to Jiangyin Keyi Compressor Co. The notice is dated 24 May 2024.

Dow and Freepoint Eco-Systems agreed a supply deal for an estimated 65,000 metric tons per year of certified-circular pyrolysis oil from a planned Arizona advanced recycling facility, to be used in Dow's US Gulf Coast operations from as early as 2026.

Dalian Roy Pump won the contract to supply equipment for the 700,000-tonne/year pyrolysis gasoline hydrogenation complex at North Huajin United Petrochemical's Fine Chemicals and Feedstock Project in China.

Weidu Valve Co. won a tender for special-material control valves and high-temperature TA9 hand valves for Jiangsu Ruixiang Chemical's 1.2 million t/a high-salt wastewater recovery project and a wet oxidation unit at Jiangsu Ruihen New Material, for CNY 38,981,292.

Shanghai Yuxuan Pump & Valve won the valve section of the coal-to-olefins upgrade demonstration project of Guoneng Baotou Coal Chemical in Inner Mongolia, supplying ball, globe, gate, safety and control valves with a 30-day production cycle. The project raises methanol capacity from 1.8 to 3.8 million tonnes per year and methanol-to-olefins capacity from 0.6 to 1.3 million tonnes per year.

Valmet will deliver critical valves, valve automation and the Valmet DNA system to Keliber Oy's lithium refinery in Kokkola, Finland, with production ramp-up planned for the second half of 2025. The order was included in Valmet's Q3 2023 orders received.

Topsoe signed an agreement with World Energy GH2 to supply its dynamic ammonia loop technology for Project Nujio'qonik in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The loop will produce up to 1,650 metric tons per day of renewable ammonia, with production expected to start in 2025.

Técnicas Reunidas has been awarded detailed engineering, procurement and equipment supply to electrify large machinery at Repsol's Sines (Portugal) and Tarragona (Spain) complexes. The work replaces ethylene and propylene compressor turbines with electric motors and is meant to cut CO2 emissions by 260,000 tonnes per year.

Monadelphous was awarded two five-year contracts with two-year extension options for maintenance services and sustaining capital projects at Albemarle Lithium's Kemerton operations in Western Australia. The work builds on its earlier construction of the lithium hydroxide plant.

Chevron Lummus Global was awarded a Petrobras contract for a new 12,580 bpd hydroisodewaxing unit at the GasLub Hub lubricant plant in Itaboraí, Rio de Janeiro state. Its scope covers the technology license, basic design engineering and research unit testing.

Golden Triangle Polymers, a joint venture of Chevron Phillips and QatarEnergy, has named contractors for its $8.5 billion polyethylene plant in Orange, Texas, which is expected to employ about 4,500 construction workers. Production is expected to begin in 2026.

EXP has been awarded a contract by Lithium Americas for design, engineering and supply of equipment for a 3,000 metric tonnes/day sulfuric acid plant at the Thacker Pass lithium project in Humboldt County, Nevada. MECS, a subsidiary of Elessent Clean Technologies, holds the technology license for the plant.

Emerson will supply automation technologies, software and control systems for the Golden Triangle Polymers Project in Orange, Texas, a $8.5 billion ethane cracker and polyethylene complex. Operations are expected to begin in 2026.

LyondellBasell signed a definite long-term contract with Nexus Circular for about 24,000 tons of advanced recycled feedstock per year, produced at Nexus's new facility, for use at LyondellBasell's Channelview, Texas plant.

The Samsung Engineering and CTCI joint venture SCJV was awarded Package 1 of QatarEnergy's Ras Laffan Petrochemicals Project, covering a 2.08 million tonne ethylene unit and utilities. The total project cost is stated as $6 billion.

TotalEnergies signed an agreement to purchase petrochemical feedstock from recycled mixed polyolefins produced by Indaver's Plastics2Chemicals plant, under construction and due to open in 2024. The feedstock will be processed into circular polymers for contact-sensitive packaging.

thyssenkrupp Uhde won an EPCC contract from Qatar Fertiliser Company (QAFCO) to build a single-train blue ammonia plant with a capacity of 3,500 metric tons per day, in a consortium with Consolidated Contractors Company. The contract was signed on August 31, 2022, with completion planned for Q1 2026.

Henan Yuda Valve reported supplying more than 500 stainless steel butterfly valves, with Emerson pneumatic actuators, to a caprolactam and hydrogen peroxide chemical project with a total valve value above 500 million RMB. The post is dated 13 August 2022.

Parker (Wuxi) Valve Co. has been selected as supplier of high-pressure control valves for the first phase of the 300,000-tonne Liuhua urea project in Gansu Province. The award followed a tender run by the Gansu Tendering Center.

Avantium has agreed to supply polyethylene furanoate (PEF), a biobased polymer, to Carlsberg for packaging including beer bottles. Avantium also agreed to supply PEF to five yarn companies.

Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions subsidiary Uhde Inventa-Fischer signed a contract to build a world-scale polymer plant for Merinos Hali in Turkey, producing 330,000 tons per year of resin for PET bottles and textile chips. The article reports no contract value.

Carlsberg Group has signed a conditional offtake agreement with Avantium to secure a fixed volume of PEF polymer from Avantium's FDCA Flagship Plant, which is planned to start up in 2024. Carlsberg will use the resin in its Fibre Bottle packaging.

Lummus Technology and its catalyst partner Clariant were awarded a contract by Fujian Meide Petrochemical to supply CATOFIN propane dehydrogenation technology and catalysts for a 900,000 metric ton per year propylene unit in Fuzhou, China, scheduled to start in 2023.

Valmet will deliver a BioTrac pretreatment system and a BioPower 48 MWth lignin-fired combined heat and power plant for ORLEN Południe's planned second-generation bioethanol plant in Jedlicze, Poland. The plant is due to start operation in 2024. The order value was not disclosed.

Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by PVC maker Kem One to build a membrane chlor-alkali electrolysis plant at Fos-sur-Mer, France. The order volume is $64 million, with Asahi Kasei as technology partner.

Flotek Industries agreed a long-term contract to supply its green downhole chemistry solutions to a dedicated portion of ProFrac's hydraulic fracturing fleets for three years. The contract creates an expected backlog of more than $230 million, and Flotek is also issuing $10 million of convertible notes to ProFrac.