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Metal

Korea Zinc to Build $7.4 Billion US Minerals Refinery With Trump’s Support

Korea Zinc announced on Monday a plan to invest in a major critical minerals refining facility in Tennessee, United States, with a total project value of approx…

United States

Chlorum Solutions Acquires Iowa Chlor-Alkali Facility From Cargill

Chlorum Solutions USA LLC, headquartered in Chicago, announced on December 13, 2025, the signing of a definitive agreement to purchase Eddyville Chlor-Alkali, L…

United States

OpenAI Unveils GPT-5.2 Improvements

OpenAI introduced its advanced AI model, GPT-5.2, on December 11, 2025, offering improvements in professional tasks, coding performance, and handling of extende…

United States

Azul Wins Court Nod for Debt Restructuring, American and United to Invest

A U.S. bankruptcy judge approved the debt restructuring plan for Brazilian airline Azul on December 12, 2025, enabling the company to reduce more than $2 billio…

United States

JBS to Close California Beef Plant

JBS, the world's largest meat company, announced on December 12, 2025, the permanent closure of a beef preparation facility located outside Los Angeles. The…

Energy Storage Project

Trina Storage and Lightshift to Deploy Over 1GWh Energy Storage Systems in US

Trina Storage and Lightshift Energy have expanded their partnership to deploy more than 1 GWh of grid-scale battery energy storage systems across the United Sta…

United States

Southwest CEO Expects Boeing Max 7 to Be Certified Around August 2026

Southwest Airlines now anticipates that the Boeing 737 MAX 7, the smallest member of the MAX family, will receive type certification around August 2026, with en…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla US Sales Drop to Nearly 4-Year Low in November Despite Launch of Cheaper Versions

Tesla's U.S. sales fell to a near four-year low in November, despite the introduction of more affordable variants of its leading electric vehicles, accordin…

United States

US Senators Push USDA for Urgent Action on Bird Flu Vaccine

A bipartisan group of 23 U.S. senators sent a letter on Wednesday to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, calling for swift completion of a science-based vacci…

Offshore Wind Power

LS Power Acquires Bp’s Onshore Wind Business in US

LS Power has finalized the acquisition of BP Wind Energy North America, adding approximately 1.3 GW of operating onshore wind capacity across ten projects in th…

United States

Webuild’s Lane Completes $232M Bronx Bridge

A joint venture between SPC Construction and Lane Construction, the U.S. subsidiary of Italy's Webuild Group, has completed the new Unionport Bridge over We…

Combined cycle power plant

GE Vernova Expects 80 Gigawatts of Gas Turbine Contracts by Year’s End

GE Vernova, a major manufacturer of power generation equipment, announced on Tuesday that it expects to secure contracts for approximately 80 gigawatts of combi…

United States

NextEra, Google Accelerate US Data Center Build-Out With New Deals

U.S. utility NextEra Energy and Google Cloud, a unit of Alphabet, announced on Monday an expanded partnership to develop new electricity generation capacity acr…

United States

Meta Strikes Multiple AI Deals With News Publishers

Meta announced on Friday that it has entered into multiple commercial agreements with news publishers, including USA Today, People Inc, CNN, Fox News, The Daily…

Electric Vehicles

Tesla Launches Low-Cost Model 3 Variant in Europe

Tesla launched a more affordable Standard version of the Model 3 in several European markets on Friday, approximately two months after its introduction in the U…