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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 …

Sweden

Skanska Aims for Higher Construction Profit Margins

Swedish construction company Skanska announced on Tuesday that it has raised its financial target for the operating margin of its construction division to a min…

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…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

EU Approves $2 Billion Subsidy for German Coal Exit

On Tuesday, the European Commission approved a €1.75 billion (about US $2.03 billion) compensation payment from Germany to Lausitz Energie Kraftwerke AG (L…

United Kingdom

Exxon to Close Scottish Chemicals Plant in 2026 Amid Market Uncertainty

Exxon Mobil announced on Tuesday that it will close its Fife Ethylene Plant in Scotland in February 2026. The company said the site is no longer competitive bec…

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…

Smart Grid

Shanghai Electric and Siemens to Drive Green Digital Power Grid Transformation

Shanghai Electric and Siemens signed a framework agreement on Monday at the 8th China International Import Expo to accelerate the green digital transformation o…

France

EDF, OpCore to Develop 4-Billion-Euro Data Centre in France

French utility EDF and OpCore, a joint venture formed by telecoms group Iliad and InfraVia Capital Partners, announced on Monday that they have entered into exc…

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…