Nuinsco Resources Limited announced that mineralogical studies at its Prairie Lake Critical Minerals and phosphate project located near Terrace Bay, Ontario indicate that the Project has amongst the world’s highest known light rare earth element content in apatite.
Egypt’s industrial group Delemar has announced that it is building an architectural glass factory at a cost of around 600 million Egyptian pounds ($38 million). The factory is being constructed over an area of 25,000 square meters near the capital Cairo and will have a production capacity of 50,000 square meters per month, to be more than doubled in 2023.
Şişecam held the groundbreaking ceremony of its first European glass packaging facility in Kaposvar, Hungary. The new investment is worth EUR 255 million.
Rigaku, a leader in material characterization, announced a new collaboration with C-Therm Technologies Ltd. to bring Rigaku’s thermal analysis product line to the United States.
Glass container manufacturer Stoelzle has joined the ZeroCO2Glas project. The overall goal of the ZeroCO2Glas project is to use an all-encompassing approach to develop a revolutionary glass melting process in connection with a new type of CO2-neutral and energy saving glass melting furnace.
The MPIF comprehensive website of powder metallurgy microstructures was recently updated to make the user experience more enjoyable. Several new materials were added including 300 and 400 series stainless steel alloys.
General Electric is working with the U.S. Department of Energy on a superconducting generator that could boost the power rating of offshore wind turbines by 2–3 MW. DOE has provided $20.3 million in funding toward the research.
DENSO group company NSITEXE, Inc., a designer and developer of semiconductor components, has led Quadric’s $21 million Series B funding round. NSITEXE first invested in Quadric, an innovator in high-performance edge processing, in 2019 to support the startup’s development of edge processing units.
The U.S. Department of Energy, along with Department of Labor and AFL-CIO, launched a national workforce development strategy for lithium-battery manufacturing. The $5 million investment includes supporting up to five pilot training programs in energy and automotive communities and advancing workforce partnerships between industry and labor.
For years, the neon used by semiconductor manufacturers to produce computer chips has mostly come from Ukraine. But faced with the devastating reality of war, Ukraine’s neon industry halted production. Currently, it is unclear whether chip companies have enough time to find and develop new sources of this gas before their backup supplies run out.
