Coca-Cola Consolidated is deepening its long-term commitment to Indianapolis with a $35 million investment that will expand local manufacturing capabilities to bottle beverages in glass bottles. This local investment makes this facility one of only three in the nation to bottle beverages in glass.
The India government approved two new semiconductor projects worth $414 million as it accelerates efforts to establish the country as a global electronics powerhouse. The projects—an LED display facility and a semiconductor packaging unit—takes the total number of semiconductor facilities in India to 12.
The ThermoPlastic composites Application Center in the Netherlands is leading the Low-CO2 Composite Components project to demonstrate industrial long-fiber composites recycling for the automotive industry.
White Cap, a distributor of specialty construction supplies and safety products for professional contractors, acquired the business of Concrete Systems Inc., a distributor of concrete accessories and rental formwork. Its locations include Concrete Systems in Albuquerque, N.M., and El Paso Concrete Systems in Texas.
France called an online meeting of G7 countries to discuss how to break China’s stranglehold on critical materials. The online meeting with relevant ministers was intended to prepare for a mid-June summit of the G7 leaders in the French spa town of Evian.
The University of California, Santa Barbara plans to join the Electrochemistry Foundry, a new nonprofit that aims to help overcome barriers to developing prototypes and industrial-scale battery production. The centerpiece of the organization’s operations will be its in-development 20,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility.
NVIDIA and Corning Incorporated announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership to dramatically expand U.S.-based manufacturing of the advanced optical connectivity solutions needed to power next-generation artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Amid growing global investment in nuclear technologies and research, McMaster University is introducing a new undergraduate degree in nuclear engineering to help prepare the next generation of skilled professionals.
A new National Science Foundation program called Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics will provide scholarships for undergraduate students studying ceramic engineering or glass engineering at Alfred University, Colorado School of Mines, and Missouri S&T.
A group of Chilean senators introduced a bill aimed at establishing a special legal regime for critical minerals in Chile. They warn the current regulatory framework was designed primarily with an extractive logic, which is inadequate to address the technical, economic, and geopolitical particularities of critical minerals.
According to a peer-reviewed analysis published in Communications Sustainability, an amount of money spent deploying wind or solar across nearly every U.S. region delivers more combined climate and public health benefit than if it is spent on direct air capture.
Millions of kilometers of fiber-optic cables from drones are littering Ukrainian land and creating a new challenge for humanitarian mine clearance teams, as explained in an Ukrainska Pravda article.
Discovery to Impact, the group overseeing the UT Seed Fund and research commercialization at The University of Texas at Austin, invested in Celadyne Technologies, a materials science and energy systems startup launched out of the university that uses dual-use materials to solve long-standing infrastructure challenges in hydrogen production and storage.
Brokk launched the Brokk 110+ and 130+ demolition robots, building on the company’s previous 110 and 130 machines with the new Brokk SmartPower+ technology. Brokk also debuted the Ecovolve battery-powered EL500 mini loader to the North American market, which is designed to meet the demand for emission-free construction and demolition jobsite solutions.
