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South Korea

Lotte and Hyundai to Merge Some Petrochem Units

Lotte Chemical and HD Hyundai Chemical have agreed to consolidate part of their naphtha-cracking operations at the Daesan petrochemical complex in South Chungch…

Electric Vehicles

Toyota October Output Grows for Fifth Straight Month on Strong US Demand

Toyota Motor (7203.T) reported on Thursday that its global vehicle production increased for the fifth consecutive month in October, supported by continued stron…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Sterling and Wilson Secures $147M EPC Contract for Solar Project in South Africa

Sterling and Wilson Renewable Energy Limited (SWREL) has secured a turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract worth approximately Rs 13.1…

United Kingdom

UK Government Selects Hal’s £49BN Expansion Plans for Heathrow

The UK government has selected Heathrow Airport Limited's (HAL) proposal as the preferred scheme for expanding Heathrow with a third runway. Transport Secre…

Germany

Uniper and Thyssenkrupp Uhde Sign Framework Agreement for Ammonia Cracking Technology

Thyssenkrupp Uhde GmbH and Uniper SE have signed a framework agreement for the licensing and potential construction of up to six large-scale ammonia cracking pl…

Turkey

Turkey Signs Deal to Import 300 Thsd Tons of Russian Wheat

Turkey's state grain purchasing agency TMO has completed a direct procurement of approximately 300,000 metric tons of Russian milling wheat from United Grai…

Poland

Boeing to Build Apache Helicopters for Poland as Part of $4.7 Billion Contract

Boeing announced on Wednesday that it has secured a U.S. Army contract valued at nearly $4.7 billion to manufacture AH-64E Apache attack helicopters for interna…

Metal

Sweden Grants Green Steel Startup Stegra $41 Million in Funding

Sweden announced on Wednesday that it has awarded 390 million Swedish crowns ($41 million) in funding to green steel producer Stegra. The grant will help the co…

Photovoltaic （PV）

Zelestra Signs 95.7MW PPA With Microsoft in Aragón, Spain

Zelestra has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with Microsoft to supply clean electricity from two solar projects in Spain with a combined capacity of…

Metal

Caledonia Mining to Proceed With Bilboes Gold Project in Zimbabwe

Caledonia Mining has completed and published a feasibility study for the Bilboes gold project in Zimbabwe, confirming that a single-phase development is the mos…

Netherlands

Port of Rotterdam, HGK Partner on Green Rhine Supply Chains

The Port of Rotterdam Authority and Germany's HGK-Group have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop low-carbon supply chains along the Rhine corrid…

United States

OpenAI Projects 220 Million Paying ChatGPT Users by 2030

OpenAI forecasts that by 2030, approximately 220 million weekly ChatGPT users will subscribe to paid plans, representing 8.5% of an expected total of 2.6 billio…

Electric Vehicles

China's GWM Targets 300,000 Annual Production With First Europe Car Plant

Great Wall Motor (GWM), a major Chinese automaker, plans to establish its first European manufacturing plant with a target of producing 300,000 vehicles annuall…

Metal

Barrick Committed to Pakistan’s Reko Diq Copper Project, Says Interim CEO

Barrick Gold Corp continues to support the development of the Reko Diq copper-gold project in Pakistan, one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper depo…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Trump Seeks to Ease US Regulations for Coal-Fired Power Plants

The administration of President Donald Trump has requested a federal court to invalidate the 2024 limits on soot emissions for power plants and factories. In a …