January 7, 2026 - Engineering and project management firm Samsung E&A has held a groundbreaking ceremony for its Wabash low-carbon ammonia project in Indiana.

The project, to be built in Terre Haute, will produce up to 500,000 tonnes of ammonia and capture 1.67 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually. The ceremony was held in Washington DC.

It is being funded by the US Department of Energy, the Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy, and Environment.

Samsung E&A signed an engineering, procurement, and fabrication contract worth approximately KRW680bn (approximately $475m) with Wabash Valley Resources in October last year. It aims to complete the project in 2029.

Samsung E&A president and CEO Hong Namkoong (left) shakes hands with Simon Greenshields, chairman of the board for Wabash Valley Resources

Photo: Samsung E&A

The company continues to broaden its activity across the industrial gases sector.

Last month it secured a KRW23bn ($15.7m) front end engineering design contract for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant in Louisiana, which will take 10 months to complete.

Other projects include a SAF plant in Malaysia, a biodegradable plastics plant in the UAE, a basic design for a LNG plant in Indonesia, and a conceptual design for an LNG plant in North America.

In November, it launched a green hydrogen production solution, CompassH2-P, developed in collaboration with Nel Hydrogen, which is billed as the first 100MW proton exchange membrane-based production solution.

The Beaumont New Ammonia facility in Texas also recently started ammonia production.