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Metal

Hindustan Zinc Secures Tungsten Mining Licence in Andhra Pradesh, India

Hindustan Zinc, part of the Vedanta Group, has been granted a tungsten mining license in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, marking a key step in its strategy …

United States

US Lifts Tariffs on Most Fertilizer Imports

On Tuesday, the White House announced that key nitrogen and phosphate fertilizers, along with other agricultural products, are exempt from U.S. import tariffs t…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Gets Permit for Ride-Hailing Service in Arizona

Tesla has received a permit to operate a ride-hailing service in Arizona, the state Department of Transportation announced on Tuesday, marking a step forward in…

Energy Storage Project

CATL, HyperStrong Sign Decade-Long Strategic Pact to Deepen Collaboration in Energy Storage

Chinese energy-storage integrator HyperStrong announced on Nov. 17 that it has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with CATL, establishing one of the…

Metal

African Rainbow Minerals Considers Papua New Guinea Copper Venture With Newmont Corp

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) Chairman Patrice Motsepe said on Tuesday that the company is assessing a major copper project in Papua New Guinea in cooperation …

Nuclear Reactor

US Loans Constellation $1 Billion for Three Mile Island Reactor Reboot

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it has provided a $1 billion loan to Constellation Energy Corp to restart its nuclear reactor at a Pennsylvan…

South Korea

South Korea Agrees to Join UAE’s Stargate AI Data Centre Project

South Korea announced on Tuesday that it will cooperate with the United Arab Emirates on the U.S.-supported Stargate project, which aims to build a large artifi…

Electric Vehicles

GAC Group, Alibaba Cloud Expand Partnership Into Full-Stack AI

GAC Group and Alibaba Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement on November 14 to expand their partnership into comprehensive artificial intelligence appli…

Germany

BASF and ExxonMobil Collaborate on Methane Pyrolysis Technology

BASF (Ludwigshafen, Germany) and ExxonMobil (Houston, Texas) announced on Monday a strategic collaboration to advance methane pyrolysis technology, a step towar…

Photovoltaic （PV）

First Solar to Open Gaffney Production Facility in South Carolina, US

First Solar announced plans on Monday to build a new production facility in Gaffney, South Carolina, with an investment of around $330 million. The plant is sch…

Metal

Rio Tinto to Cut Yarwun Alumina Output by 40% From October 2026 to Extend Plant Life

Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said on Tuesday that it will reduce production at the Yarwun alumina refinery in Queensland by 40% starting next October. The c…

Australia

Australia Details Year to September Wheat, Durum Exports

Australia exported 23.49 million tonnes (Mt) of wheat, including durum, in the year to September 30, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. This tota…

Germany

BASF Coatings Is Committed to the UN Sustainable Development Goals

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) provide a global plan for peace and prosperity. Adopted in September 2015 at the UN World Summit, t…

United Kingdom

Costain’s £30 Million of Road Upgrades for the UK

Costain has secured a £30m package of works under the Eastern Highways Alliance (EHA) Framework, known as EHF4. The Framework focuses on the next generati…

Nuclear Fusion

Six German States Unite for Fusion Research

Six German states—Bavaria, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein—have established the Alliance for Fusion Research to …