Allied Mineral Products announced the opening of its newest manufacturing facility in Izmir, Türkiye. Located in the AOSB industrial area of Izmir, the new facility is equipped with machinery to produce high-quality refractory products.
Saint-Gobain announced the launch of a new low-carbon stone wool insulation plant in the U.K., which will be located on a site owned by the Group in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, and is expected to begin production in 2027.
Green cement manufacturer Fortera achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification for its ReCarb Plant in Redding, Calif., which produces 15,000 tons of ReAct low-carbon cement annually. While this certification is specific to the Redding ReCarb facility, it sets the standard for expanding ISO 9001:2015 certification across its future manufacturing footprint.
The AMRICC Academy, which is located within The AMRICC Centre, will provide training and development programs that address emerging industry challenges and tackle a skills gap in both traditional and advanced ceramics.
Russia’s state-run oil giant Rosneft PJSC acquired the giant Tomtor rare earth deposit in Siberia, filings in the country’s national commercial registry show. Tomtor, considered Russia’s largest deposit of its kind, is central to Moscow’s ambitions to boost domestic production of strategic minerals used in defence and high-tech industries.
As one of the U.K.’s leading independent glass processing groups, Cornwall Group has worked with Saint-Gobain since the late 1990s. Celebrating 25 years is a testament to the power of long-term thinking, says Mark Mitchell, chairman of Cornwall Group.
The Kolkata-based CSIR-Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi to foster joint research on glass-ceramics and other areas critical to national development.
Cargill Bioindustrial and Arizona State University are launching a new, year-long research partnership focused on advanced materials used in semiconductor technology. The research is focused on Cargill Priamine dimer diamine, which is made from bio-based ingredients.
Google hired Patrick Taylor, the former director of commercial structuring, nuclear, and carbon-free energy at Microsoft, as the new commercial lead for the company’s advanced energy technology team. Google has geothermal contracts with Fervo and Baseload and small modular reactor deals with Kairos and Elementl.
Carlos Moreira da Silva was named Glass Person of the Year 2025 by the Phoenix Award Committee. During his time as CEO and chairman of BA Glass, the company grew rapidly through a series of acquisitions, reaching 14 manufacturing plants across Europe and Mexico, and producing more than 20 million glass units daily.
The Colorado School of Mines is now offering a fully-online Master of Science (Non-Thesis) degree in carbon capture, utilization, and storage. The first enrollment will begin in fall 2025, with an application deadline of Aug. 1, 2025.
Plans continue at pace for UNITECR 2025, the 19th Biennial Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories, which will take place Oct. 27-30, 2025, in Cancún, Mexico. Registration opened recently, and the organizers have received more than 250 abstract submissions.
China installed a record 60 gigawatts of new solar photovoltaic capacity in the first quarter of 2025, according to Rystad Energy research and analysis. The surge was largely driven by the urgency to meet policy deadlines set by the National Energy Administration’s new guidelines, which were released in October 2024 and put into effect in May 2025.
