India’s Optiemus Electronics Ltd. partnered with Corning Inc. to set up India’s first tempered-glass manufacturing facility at Noida. The facility will have a total installed capacity of 25 million units/year in the first phase of production.
Window and door manufacturer MITER Brands is reshuffling its Florida operations. The major moves include relocating production lines from its Medley and Hialeah facilities to other MITER Brands facilities in Florida; the closure of its Medley and Hialeah manufacturing facilities; and opening a new, advanced glass manufacturing plant in Pembroke Pines.
The World of Glass museum in St. Helens, U.K., will close unless £50,000 is raised by September 21. It is an independent charity that offers free cultural and education experiences including historic furnaces, hands-on exhibits, and live glassblowing.
NextEra Energy is aiming to secure a lucrative power purchase agreement to restart the Duane Arnold nuclear plant outside Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Duane Arnold would follow similar restarts planned at the Palisades nuclear plant in Michigan and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania.
Plans for nuclear and clean energy research and development facilities have been submitted for the site of the former Berkeley Science and Technology Park. Chiltern Vital Berkeley, the firm behind the scheme, previously announced it was talking with two investors, Quantum Leap Energy and Astral Systems.
Chipmaker Amkor Technologies will relocate its planned $2 billion semiconductor packaging and test facility to a larger site in north Peoria, Ariz. The project was originally slated for a 56-acre parcel within the Five North mixed-use development at Vistancia but changed course after facing pushback from residents.
DuPont announced that Arclin, a portfolio company of an affiliate of TJC, L.P., reached a definitive agreement to acquire DuPont’s Aramids business (Kevlar and Nomex) in a transaction valuing the business at approximately $1.8 billion.
Dental 3D printing company SprintRay announced the acquisition of the EnvisionTEC portfolio of dental products, including its patents, trademarks, inventory, and other intellectual property related to its dental materials and 3D printing technologies.
Key technological aspects of the energy sector modernization as well as international experience in regulating and promoting the use of renewable energy and hydrogen were the main themes of a recent training organized by the United Nations Development Program and United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
ABET’s next virtual workshop on using generative AI tools and techniques for program assessment takes place Nov. 18 and 19, 2025, from 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Eastern each day. Participants will explore how tools such as ChatGPT can be used to streamline and strengthen assessment practices across disciplines.
2025 has ushered in a major increase in U.S.-based manufacturing. This Battery Technology article identifies 13 companies, both domestic and foreign, that are part of the rush to domestic production.
The Indian government plans to prioritize proposals for silicon carbide-based wafer manufacturing under the second version of the India Semiconductor Mission. The government has almost exhausted funds under the first phase of the Mission, under which 10 projects have been approved till date.
The U.S. is among the top three markets for the Indian ceramic industry and one that has helped build this area into an export hub over the past two decades. But U.S. buyers have pulled back nearly all the orders since the U.S. tariff announcements.
Sorg’s Clean Melter is the focus of the group’s seven-part docuseries “Journey to Decarbonization.” The hybrid furnace draws up to 80% of its power from renewable electric energy. The series launches on Sept. 16, 2025, with episodes to be released biweekly at sorg.de.
Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University worked with several partners to develop the world’s first mass-producible liquid crystal gradient-index glasses. Beyond correcting myopia and presbyopia, the innovation opens new possibilities for wearable displays and machine vision systems.
