News Polish firm to build $10.6bn ammonia plant in Egypt Egypt’s General Authority for Investment (GAFI) will commission Polish energy company Hynfra to build a green ammonia plant, local media report. The plan is to produce ammonia for export to…
News Vinci to build state-of-the-art waste-to-energy plant in the Dordogne Vinci Grands Projets is to team up with its sister companies GTM Sud-Oues and Chantiers Modernes Nouvelle-Aquitaine to design and build a waste-to-energy plant in the commune of Brive-la-Gaillarde, in…
Projects How they’re building BMW’s new EV plant inside the old one, fast German consultant Drees & Sommer has described how it is steering a €650m conversion of BMW’s main factory in Munich to prepare it for producing cars with electric-only drive systems…
News Saudi Arabia to set up $186m concrete factory to supply 170km-long city Plans have been announced to build a $186m concrete plant as part of the huge Neom development programme in Saudi Arabia’s northwestern Tabuk Province. Saudi building materials company Asas Al-Mohileb…
News China Energy Investment to spend $24bn on coal-to-oil plant in Xinjiang China’s biggest miner has announced has begun work on a $24bn plant to turn China’s future coal surpluses into chemicals. China Energy Investment (CEIC) said it is building the plant…
News Foxconn to build ‘very, very enormous’ Nvidia plant in Mexico Taiwanese chipmaker Foxconn plans to build one of the world’s largest assembly plants for US tech company Nvidia in Guadalajara, Mexico, Reuters reports. The plant will bundle Nvidia’s GB200 superchips…
News Siemens to build America’s first high-speed-train factory Siemens Mobility has announced plans to build a $60m factory in New York State to manufacture high-speed trains for the Brightline West route between Las Vegas and southern California. The…
News EU approves €1bn Dutch plan to subsidise hydrogen plants A Dutch government plan to subsidise new green hydrogen plants with €1bn in grants will go ahead after passing EU scrutiny on competition and state-aid. Tenders will now go out…
News French low-carbon cement firm launches first overseas plant in Saudi Arabia In Saudi Arabia, construction has begun on the first overseas plant for Hoffmann Green Cement, a French start-up selling lower-carbon cement. Founded in 2014 and with €6m in revenues last…
News Dutch firm to build 75MW waste-to-energy plant in Lagos A Dutch waste-to-energy specialist has formed a partnership with the government of Lagos State in Nigeria to build a plant to power some 40,000 homes. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu and Harvest…
News Eyes on Xi Jinping’s Hungarian visit for possible EV plant Chinese car maker Great Wall Motors plans to build a big electric vehicle plant in Hungary, media there have been speculating. They believe it will time the announcement to coincide…
News Calgary approves $880m biofuels plant The Canadian city of Calgary has approved plans to build a US$880m biofuel plant developed by Green Impact Partners. The company said the decision followed two years of technical and…
News Norway’s Scatec to build $450m green fuel plant in Egypt Egypt yesterday signed a $450m deal with a Norwegian renewables company to build a green methanol plant to produce fuel for ships, Ahram Online reports. The agreement signed by the…
News Webuild, Saipem land €2.56bn urea factory contract Webuild’s new subsidiary Clough and its joint-venture partner Saipem have reached financial close on a €2.56bn contract to build a urea factory in Western Australia. Located on the Burrup Peninsula…
News Almost no CO2: US firm to build world’s first carbon captured gas power plant North Carolina clean energy company Net Power plans to build the world’s first utility-scale gas power plant in Texas that will emit almost no CO2 thanks to its carbon capture…