DSF Refractories & Minerals finished a three-year installation project. The refractory manufacturer partnered with Siemens to install a new automated brick press. Besides the press, the project included the installation and financing of a robotic offloading and conveyor system and key structural upgrades. These enhancements have doubled the output of the company.
McWane Plant & Industrial announced that its new glass lining facility in Calera, Ala., is fully operational, with initial orders of glass-lined ductile iron pipe and fittings now shipping.
Eurofiber now offers wavelength division multiplexing connections between data centers in six German cities: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart. The company primarily uses the fiber-optic network of NGN Fiber Network, in which it is a shareholder.
Unit 1 at the Rooppur nuclear power station being built by Russia in Bangladesh achieved criticality with grid connection expected by the end of November 2026.
Seattle-based nuclear startup Avalanche Energy selected the Tri-Cities, a metropolitan region in southeastern Washington state, after a nationwide site evaluation to be the home for its first global production facility that will manufacture energy-generating devices.
Korean private equity firm Stonebridge Capital acquired Foures Co., a semiconductor equipment supplier to Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc., for 200 billion won (US$140 million), joining a wave of buyout firms seeking to capitalize on rising investment in advanced memory chips.
Egyptian German Porcelain Company, part of the Fathy Mahmoud Group, had the 11th automatic spray glazing system at its Mergim facility installed and commissioned by MLC Ceramic Machinery. The Mergim facility is said to be one of the largest single-site porcelain factories anywhere in the world.
During the annual Pledge Conference & Awards Day organized by Ceramics UK, Mantec Technical Ceramics received the SME Health & Safety Award in recognition of its most recent comprehensive practical risk reduction project. Ben Ashmore, manufacturing manager at Mantec, accepted the award on behalf of the company.
On October 16, the Greenlandic Parliament unanimously voted to ban deep-sea mineral extraction after U.S. President Donald Trump announced large-scale exploration for mineral deposits on the island. The resolution mandates that the Greenlandic government introduce regulations that will remain in effect until the end of 2029, with possible two-year extensions.
The ASEAN Energy Transition and Investment Roadmap was launched at the ASEAN Energy Business Forum, providing a new regional analysis of how Southeast Asia’s energy system could evolve to meet rising energy demand while advancing the region’s long-term carbon neutrality ambitions.
A proposed $5 billion gas network could help Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan share supplies and meet winter demand. The ‘Gas Ring’ would link new and existing pipelines, but funding and agreements between governments remain to be finalized.
China’s biggest solar manufacturers cut another fifth of their workforces last year, company filings show, as Beijing’s pledge to tackle overcapacity has yet to pull the industry out of losses. Chinese solar companies have built enough capacity to meet world demand roughly twice over, and have lost money, individually and collectively, for years despite record installations.
According to a new analysis by the energy think tank Ember, insufficient progress has been made toward the Energy Storage and Grids Pledge, endorsed by dozens of countries at COP29 two years ago, to target 1,500 GW of energy storage deployment by 2030.
Throughout 2026, many semiconductor manufacturers have made acquisitions to strengthen their microcontroller unit business and lay out their strategies for artificial intelligence competition. The article linked above by 36Kr European Central Station overviews these transactions.
