Facility

Metal

Adani’s Kutch Copper Plant Begins Processing Ores Amid Global Shortage

The Adani Kutch Copper plant, a new smelter owned by Indian billionaire Gautam Adani, has commenced operations in Gujarat, India. The facility began processing …

China

Alibaba’s New Data Center in Korea to Begin Operation This Month

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing division of Alibaba Group, announced that its second data center in South Korea will begin operations later this month. Locat…

Spent Fuel (Used Fuel)

US Supreme Court Rules on Interim Storage Facility Case

The US Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the State of Texas and Fasken Land and Minerals could not seek judicial review of the US Nuclear Regulatory …

Electric Vehicles

Huawei, JAC’s MAEXTRO Puts S800 Luxury Sedan Model Into Volume Production

On June 18, 2025, MAEXTRO, a brand formed by JAC Group and Huawei, began mass production of its flagship sedan, the MAEXTRO S800, at the MAEXTRO Super Factory i…

Geothermal Power Plant

Ormat Completes Blue Mountain Nevada Geothermal Plant Acquisition

Ormat Technologies recently completed its purchase of the Blue Mountain geothermal power plant from Cyrq Energy for $88 million. The acquisition, which includes…

Mali

Mali Breaks Ground on $130BN-A-Year Gold Refinery

Mali has officially launched construction of a major gold refinery in Senu, on the southern outskirts of Bamako. The project is a strategic move by the governme…

Energy Storage Project

Romanian Grid Operator Launches 70 MWh Storage Tender

Romanian transmission system operator Transelectrica has announced a tender for a battery energy storage project with a 35MW power output and 70 MWh storage cap…

Nuclear waste

Contractors Selected to Build Belgian Disposal Facility

Belgium’s national radioactive waste management agency, ONDRAF/NIRAS, has selected the NucleusSafe partnership to handle civil engineering for a surface d…

Poland

New HUBER+SUHNER Site in Poland to Boost POLATIS® OCS Output for Hyperscale Growth

HUBER+SUHNER has launched a new manufacturing facility in Pisary, Poland, dedicated to producing POLATIS® optical circuit switches (OCS) for AI and hypersca…

Metal

Element 25 Receives $32.5m From NAIF to Expand Australian Manganese Project

Australian mining company Element 25 has obtained a senior debt finance facility of up to A$50 million ($32.5 million) from the Northern Australia Infrastructur…

Solar Cell

T1 Energy Advances $850M Solar Cell Facility Development in US

T1 Energy has advanced its $850 million G2_Austin 5GW solar cell facility in Texas by selecting Yates Construction for preconstruction and site preparation serv…

Geothermal Power Plant

First Synchronization Completed for Lumut Balai Unit 2 Geothermal Power Plant, Indonesia

PT Pertamina Geothermal Energy (PGEO) has successfully completed the initial synchronization of the Lumut Balai Unit 2 geothermal power plant in South Sumatra, …

Japan

Tosoh to Construct New Chloroprene Rubber Plant in Japan

Tosoh Corporation, based in Tokyo, has announced a plan to expand the production capacity of its Skyprene-brand chloroprene rubber (CR) by constructing a second…

Battery

I4B Backs 600MWh Battery Project in Belgium

I4B – The Belgian Infrastructure Fund – has announced a €30 million investment in a major battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Vis&e…

France

INEOS Begins Plastic Production Using Recycled Feedstock in France

INEOS Olefins & Polymers, based in Lavera, Southern France, has received its initial shipments of pyrolysis oil, a feedstock derived from recycled plastic waste…