Category: Europe

The €200 million project was officially opened on 7th September in an inauguration ceremony at Sluiskil in the Netherlands attended by the Norwegian and Dutch prime ministers.

Topsoe has signed a contract with international energy company Uniper, to deliver front end engineering design (FEED) for the company’s NorthStarH2 green methanol project in Östersund, Northern Sweden.

Spanish integrated energy company Moeve, formerly Cepsa, has started construction of the 300 MW Onuba renewable-hydrogen project in Palos de la Frontera, Huelva. The project is the first phase of the planned 2 GW Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley.

Fertiglobe, Covestro and MB Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding to assess an ammonia-import supply chain through a proposed terminal at Blumensand in Hamburg, Germany.

Zico Zeeman , Royal EMT’s Commercial Director, talks to Fertilizer International about what’s been a proud and momentous year for the business and his family.

Russia's sulphur supply is under renewed pressure after another Ukrainian strike hit the Astrakhan gas processing plant, a facility vital to the country's fertilizer industry and responsible for over 60% of its sulphur output.

Topsoe has signed a contract with international energy company Uniper, to deliver front end engineering and design (FEED) for the company’s NorthStarH2 e-methanol project in Östersund, Northern Sweden

Contractors have begun sinking the 160 bored concrete piles that will hold up the new above-ground processing hall at K+S's Wintershall potash plant in Heringen, central Germany, marking the first visible surface construction on the €600 million ($696 million) Werra 2060 transformation project.

Green methanol has begun to be shipped to Austria's OMV from the Solar Park Kasso plant. The plant is operated by a joint venture between Mitsui & Co., Ltd, with a 49% share, and renewable energy company European Energy A/S (51%). The plant, located in Kassø, southern Denmark, was inaugurated on 13 May 2025 and is based on hydrogen derived from solar electricity from the adjacent 304 MW Kassø Solar Park, which is then combined with biogenic CO2 and distilled to 99.9% purity, suitable for combustion engines and plastics production. The plant makes 42,000 t/a of green methanol.

Germany's chemical industry association VCI has warned that continued low water on the Rhine and other inland waterways could force chemical companies to cut production, as Berlin publicly acknowledged the freight squeeze and put a relaxation of the Sunday lorry driving ban up for review.