Coca-Cola Consolidated plans to invest $35 million in a new glass bottle filler line at its facility on Indianapolis’ west side, with construction expected to begin in late 2026. Once operational, the new line will make Indianapolis one of only three locations in the Coca-Cola system nationwide that bottle beverages in glass.
VITREUS USA selected Newberry County, S.C., for its first North American operation. VITREUS USA is a subsidiary of VITREUS GmbH, a German company that produces engobes, glazes, and granulates for the heavy ceramics industry.
Swarthmore College and eight other institutions in North Carolina and Pennsylvania collaborated to bring a western Kentucky solar energy center online. The 150-megawatt solar facility, Sebree Solar II Energy Center, will help meet Henderson County’s growing electricity demand, supplying enough energy annually to power more than 20,000 homes.
Gujarat-based solar module manufacturer Rayzon Solar Ltd. is set to commence production at its 5.1 GW TOPCon solar cell manufacturing facility in December 2026, with initial deliveries expected in the first quarter of 2027. The facility marks the company’s expansion beyond module manufacturing.
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is leading a new national consortium to accelerate the transition of energy storage innovations from discovery to domestic manufacturing. Called the Battery Manufacturing Accelerator, the consortium will address critical barriers in scaling new battery technologies.
Octopus Energy, CATL, and Xiamen Ampace Technology Limited signed a memorandum of understanding to explore collaboration on next-generation smart home energy storage solutions that pair high-performance hardware directly with intelligent software. The collaboration will draw on CATL and Ampace’s pioneering research into next-generation battery chemistries.
The University of Chicago and Toyota entered into a multiyear collaborative research agreement to accelerate the development of quantum technologies for future mobility, sustainable transportation, and secure vehicle systems.
The Department of Energy’s National Reactor Innovation Center announced a collaboration with Purdue University’s Applied Research Institute to demonstrate construction technologies that could significantly reduce the cost and risk of new nuclear reactors.
The Republic of Korea and Türkiye signed an agreement to explore financing for Turkish energy projects, as Seoul seeks a role in building the country’s planned second nuclear plant at Sinop on the Black Sea coast.
On Nov. 5, 2026, the National Council for the Industrialization of Critical and Strategic Minerals held its inaugural meeting at the Planalto Palace, during which it approved the Brazilian list of 27 critical and strategic minerals, divided into three priority classes.
Under a newly issued roadmap, various building materials in Vietnam, ranging from construction glass and emulsion wall paints to thermal insulation and nonbaked materials, will mandatorily feature energy labels starting in 2029 and 2031. Group 1 products, which face mandatory energy labeling starting Jan. 1, 2029, will comprise many types of glass.
While Utah’s vision for a local spaceport can be traced back to the Nixon administration, recent momentum has brought the project nearer to reality than ever before. However, a core debate has emerged regarding its primary function: whether the facility should serve as a launch site, a recovery location, or combination of both.
The US mid-term elections swept the Democratic party to power in both chambers of the US Congress, raising hopes that lawmakers will now push back against disruptions to science introduced by the administration of Republican President Donald Trump.
The U.K. is “dangerously” dependent on China for critical raw materials needed for the military, renewable energy infrastructure, and artificial intelligence, a parliamentary investigation found. Members of Parliament were told that demand for lithium alone would increase 45-fold between 2024 and 2030, leaving the U.K. in a high-risk dependency relationship with China.
Emirates Glass, a subsidiary of Glass LLC, the Dubai Investments-owned holding company for its integrated glass manufacturing businesses, unveiled one of the Middle East’s most advanced curved glass production systems. The system introduces advanced dual-direction bending technology, enabling both concave and convex glass production on a single platform.
Envision Energy says that it has completed the world’s first commercial data center deployment of an integrated 800-volt DC power system. It has been testing the Dubhe Controller, supported by its Dubhe Energy Foundation Model since August 2026, at its Galaxy AI data center in Ulanqab, Inner Mongolia, China.
