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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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&...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
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....
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...
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...