French renewable hydrogen producer Lhyfe entirely replaced natural gas with green hydrogen in high-temperature ceramic manufacturing plants in Spain’s Valencia region. To achieve this feat, Lhyfe developed a “mixing kit” that gradually increases the proportion of green hydrogen in the mixture from zero to 100%.
NovaSklo signed an agreement with Horn, Bottero, and Zippe for its float glass manufacturing plant in Ukraine. The €240 million project is scheduled to be built in the Kyiv region by 2028.
Pilkington United Kingdom Limited, part of the NSG Group, launched a new glass production line at its Greengate Works site in St. Helens as part of a multi-million-pound investment to safeguard the future of rolled texture glass manufacturing in the U.K.
Kyocera Fineceramics Europe GmbH introduced a process for the additive manufacturing of components made of silicon-infiltrated silicon carbide at its Selb location in Germany.
A new, public–private partnership between Stony Brook University and onsemi, a global leader and the largest U.S.-based manufacturer of silicon carbide power semiconductors, will construct a $20 million, state-of-the-art semiconductor research and development facility on the Stony Brook University campus.
Critical Metals launched a 2,000-meter drilling program aimed at expanding the resource at its Tanbreez rare earth project in Greenland ahead of a feasibility study. The Tanbreez project is situated on a 4.7-billion-metric-ton mineralized kakortokite unit in southern Greenland that has been largely unexplored to date.
Plymouth, U.K.-based Union Glass, a leading force in the Southwest’s glazing industry, acquired Armada Glass and Glazing, a company known for bespoke interior glass design. This strategic acquisition comes on the heels of Union Glass’s recent £1.2 million investment in a purpose-built facility, alongside the successful growth of its steel fabrication division.
Amrize and Meta partnered to develop a first-of-its-kind, artificial intelligence-optimized concrete mix tailored to meet the specific needs of Meta’s data center in Rosemount, Minn. The companies worked in partnership with The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to create the data for the AI model.
Hygenco Green Energies commissioned Maharashtra’s first green hydrogen and green oxygen production facility in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, India. This pioneering project will supply green hydrogen and oxygen to Sterlite Technologies Ltd.’s glass preform facility, supporting its goal to achieve Net Zero by 2030.
Kazakhstan’s National Atomic Company Kazatomprom signed a memorandum of understanding with Slovak power utility Slovenské Elektrárne for long-term cooperation in nuclear energy. The memorandum outlines the intention to establish supplies of natural uranium concentrate and potential deliveries of uranium dioxide for Slovak nuclear power plants.
The U.S. Defense Department will become the largest shareholder in rare earth miner MP Materials after agreeing to buy $400 million of its preferred stock. MP Materials owns the only operational rare earth mine in the U.S. at Mountain Pass, Calif. Proceeds from the Pentagon investment will be used to expand MP’s rare earths processing capacity and magnet production.
The Egypt Mining Forum was held July 15–16, 2025, at the Nile Ritz-Carlton hotel in Cairo with the theme “Accelerating commercial exploration, discovery, and extraction and achieving value added from raw materials.”
Fresh talks between Iran and European powers over Tehran’s nuclear energy program are expected to be held on July 25 in Istanbul. Iranian diplomats will meet their counterparts from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany after the trio warned that sanctions could be reimposed on Tehran if it does not return to the negotiation table.
The world’s insatiable appetite for rare earths has led to a boom in unregulated mining in neighboring Myanmar, leading to extreme pollution in local waterways.
Nearly three years after relaxing the conditions for companies to seek informal guidance on the compatibility of their collaboration agreements with European Union competition law, the European Commission issued its first two informal guidance letters on July 9, 2025.
Reuters recently summarized the details of the European Union’s 18th package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine, approved last week and aimed at dealing further blows to Russia’s oil and energy industry.
JNTC Co., Ltd. hosted a product launch on June 30 at the Korea Exchange Conference Hall, unveiling its new Through-Glass-Via glass substrate under the theme “Carving Semiconductors into Glass, the Dream Material.”
