India’s Union Budget 2026 Recasts Rare Earth Minerals As Strategic Infrastructure

  India’s Union Budget 2026 places rare earth minerals firmly within the country’s strategic materials and supply chain security agenda. While rare earths do not feature as a standalone headline announcement, their importance is clearly embedded across priorities spanning mining reform, clean energy, electronics manufacturing and advanced industrial development. T...

2 Feb 2026 | Monday | NEWS
RI Research Instruments Wins €35 Million Contract for ELI-NP Gamma-Ray Source

RI Research Instruments, a company that is majority-owned by Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR), announced orders for key components and enabling subsystems for the research gamma ray source of the Extreme Light Infrastructure – Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) at the Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) in Romania. The total value of these ELI contracts is ap...

24 Dec 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Asahi Kasei Divests Daramic Lead Battery Separator Business to Kingswood Capital as Part of Strategic Portfolio Realignment

Asahi Kasei, a diversified global manufacturer in the Healthcare, Homes, and Material sectors, announces its strategic divestiture of Daramic, a lead battery separator business, to Kingswood Capital Management, LP. The Daramic business transfer closed on December 1, 2025. The effect on Asahi Kasei’s consolidated financial results for fiscal 2025 is immaterial. “As we enter a new era...

4 Dec 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
W. L. Gore & Associates Opens Shanghai Battery Lab to Accelerate Advanced Battery Materials Innovation

W. L. Gore & Associates announced the opening of its Battery Lab in Shanghai, China, expanding its global R&D capabilities to accelerate advanced battery materials development for customers worldwide. The lab is dedicated to the development, characterization, and rigorous testing of critical materials for battery cells and packs—spanning membranes, venting solutions, moisture and con...

26 Nov 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Canaan Inc. Closes $72 Million Registered Direct Offering to Accelerate Innovation in Crypto Mining

Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) ("Canaan" or the "Company"), an innovator in crypto mining, announced the closing of the registered direct offering with institutional investors that the Company announced on November 4, 2025. The offering totaled US$72 million of the Company's American depositary shares ("ADSs"), each representing 15 Class A ordinary shares, at a price of US$1.131 per ADS....

10 Nov 2025 | Monday | NEWS
INNIO Group and KMW Partner on 54-MW Peaking Power Plant to Back Green Rocks Data Center

INNIO Group has signed a contract with KMW (Kraftwerke Mainz-Wiesbaden AG) for a new 54-MW peaking power plant. A total of twelve modular energy systems from INNIO are intended to be operated at the site. Part of the plant’s capacity is expected to be available for the “Green Rocks” data center, which is being built by KMW and Norwegian data center operator Green Mountain. INNIO&...

10 Nov 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Sakuu Achieves Breakthrough Battery Longevity with Fully Dry-Printed NCM Cathode on Kavian® Manufacturing Platform

  Sakuu® , a leading provider of commercial-scale equipment to the battery and supercapacitor manufacturing industries, has released performance data on the breakthrough cycle life longevity of battery electrodes produced by the Sakuu Kavian® Manufacturing Platform with a fully dry processed cathode. Kavian enables high quality, customizable, mass-scale, and cost-effective dry electr...

31 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Canaan Deploys Hydro-Cooled Avalon® A1566HA Servers at Major Japanese Utility

Hydro-cooled Avalon® A1566HA servers deployed at major Japanese utilityProject underscores Canaan's ability to support grid efficiency amid rising residential and data-center power demand Canaan Inc., an innovator in crypto mining, announced a 4.5-megawatt sales contract with an electrical engineering solutions provider to deploy Avalon A1566HA-488T hydro-cooled mining servers for real-time...

31 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
International Battery Metals Secures USD $2 Million Follow-On Investment from EV Metals

International Battery Metals Ltd.(“IBAT”) (TSXV: IBAT) & (OTCQB: IBATF), an advanced technology provider of modular direct lithium extraction (DLE) systems,  announced a non-brokered private placement financing, marking the second follow-on investment under the Company’s previously announced binding Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with EV Metals 7 LLC (“EV M...

23 Oct 2025 | Thursday | NEWS
Capstone Green Energy and Microgrids 4 AI Unveil 800 VDC Microturbine System to Power Next-Generation AI Infrastructure

Technology Advancements Align with the Industry’s Shift Toward 800 VDC Architectures Capstone Green Energy Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries (the "Company” or “Capstone”) (OTCQX: CGEH) a leading provider of clean, low-emission microturbine energy systems and clean technology solutions, and Microgrids 4 AI, Inc. (“MG4AI”), a developer of modular, ...

22 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS
Metallium to Add Second Demonstration Line for Rare Earths and Semiconductor Feedstocks at Texas Commercial Facility

Metallium Ltd. (ASX: MTM; OTCQX: MTMCF) announced the company will add a second demonstration line at its first commercial facility, scheduled for commissioning in December. The line will be specifically for rare earths elements (REE) and semiconductor feedstocks. The announcement was made by the company as they updated investors on the advancement of the company's commercial facility in th...

14 Oct 2025 | Tuesday | NEWS
China Intensifies Semiconductor Import Crackdown to Boost Domestic AI Chip Production

China has launched a sweeping crackdown on semiconductor imports as part of its push to reduce reliance on U.S. technology and accelerate self-sufficiency in advanced computing. Over recent weeks, customs teams stationed at major ports have intensified inspections of chip shipments, with particular scrutiny on processors supplied by U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, according to multiple industry sources....

13 Oct 2025 | Monday | NEWS
Momentus Inc. Awarded $5.1M NASA Contract to Support In-Space Microgravity Crystallization Demonstration

Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company offering satellites, satellite components, and in-space transportation and services, announced that it was awarded a $5.1 million contract on September 26 by NASA’s Flight Opportunities program to support the Commercial Orbital System for Microgravity In-Space Crystallization (COSMIC) demonstration, a pioneering technology desig...

10 Oct 2025 | Friday | NEWS
Momentum Technologies Begins Commercial-Scale Rare Earth Recovery in Texas Using Proprietary MSX Platform

  Momentum Technologies (“Momentum”), a company revolutionizing critical mineral and metal recovery for reuse, announced that its Carrollton, Texas demonstration plant has commenced the processing of rare earth element (“REE”) waste from magnet swarf and mining tailings at commercial scale using its proprietary Membrane Solvent Extraction (MSX) technology. MSX is bein...

8 Oct 2025 | Wednesday | NEWS