ASML starts construction at Eindhoven’s BIC North campus
ASML began work on its BIC North campus in Eindhoven, with a first phase planned for 2029 and public transport, housing and training measures supporting growth.
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Acron sets out Talitsky potash development timetable
Acron targets the second half of 2026 for Talitsky production. Underground development has begun, with a planned annual capacity of two million tonnes.
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Amprius adds Nanotech Energy to its battery manufacturing network
Amprius has selected Nanotech Energy as its first U.S. manufacturing partner for silicon-anode cells, extending its contract production network.
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Angel Yeast plans a third production line in Dankov
Angel Yeast Rus plans a third Dankov line with investment above RUB 11 billion and a full-capacity target by the end of 2027.
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Archer opens a second meat-snack plant in Vernon
Archer opens its new Vernon meat-stick plant with added capacity and planned jobs, following a factory conversion and a brand refresh announced earlier in 2025.
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Arclin plans Nomex paper expansion in Asturias
Arclin plans new Nomex paper capabilities in Asturias, with construction expected to finish in 2027 and commissioning planned for early 2028.
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Ariane 6: propulsion, payloads and the first flights
Ariane 6 combines European production, a new launch complex and restartable propulsion. Its first flights tested payload delivery and upper-stage disposal.
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Armaz begins vegetable-oil rail cooperation with RZD Logistics
Armaz and RZD Logistics send their first vegetable-oil consignment to Armenia. Regular shipments remain under consideration after a 2025 processing-site launch.
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Arnest launches Unigroup Navoiy cosmetics project in Uzbekistan
Arnest has announced its Unigroup Navoiy project in Uzbekistan, with first-phase capacity of 85 million units a year and an export-oriented production plan.
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Artemis II science: people, instruments and mission records
Artemis II combined lunar observations with crew research. Training, cameras, experiments and archives connect the mission to work on Earth.
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Atal Setu: building a road across Mumbai’s harbour
Atal Setu connects Mumbai and Navi Mumbai through marine engineering and Japanese-backed financing, with separate construction contracts, environmental measures and announced inspection plan
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Ausmah plans Ulyanovsk truck assembly for early 2026
Ausmah outlines truck assembly in Ulyanovsk from early 2026. Its programme covers several chassis weights, localisation milestones and a target of 100 new jobs.
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Baiada opens Tamworth poultry processing plant
Baiada’s Tamworth facility combines processing, chilling and packaging, with launch capacity distinct from the approved second-line expansion.
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Bashneft launches permeate processing at the Meteli gas complex
Bashneft launched a permeate-processing unit at Metelinskoye, adding treatment to a complex supplying local consumers and the Meteli power station in Bashkiria.
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Biomass: the radar, industry and calibration behind forest-carbon measurements
ESA’s Biomass mission links P-band radar, a deployable antenna and ground calibration to measurements of forest structure and carbon storage.
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Boral supplies concrete for Emu Plains tunnel precasting
Boral’s Emu Plains batching plant will supply concrete for Western Harbour Tunnel segments and culverts alongside continuing recycling operations.
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Brenner Base Tunnel: machines, concrete and cross-border construction
Brenner Base Tunnel construction combines mechanised excavation, blasting, concrete lining and rail logistics beneath the Alps.
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Bridor completes a $200 million expansion at its Vineland bakery
Bridor expands pastry production in Vineland, New Jersey, with a new bread line scheduled for the second quarter of 2026.
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China’s new CAES compressor: machinery, heat and underground storage
A compressor test adds to China’s compressed-air storage technology, alongside developments in expansion machinery, heat recovery, materials and underground reservoirs.
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Crisp Power opens U.S. pretzel plant in Stafford
Crisp Power’s $15 million Texas facility brings pretzel manufacturing to the United States.
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DART: measuring the aftermath of an asteroid impact
DART changed a moonlet’s orbit and its asteroid pair’s motion around the Sun. Telescopes and a flyby camera measured the impact’s effects.
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DESI: how spectra become a map of cosmic expansion
DESI turns millions of spectra into measurements of cosmic expansion. Its data releases and analysis methods show how researchers test dark energy.
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DUNE and Hyper-K: building two different neutrino experiments
DUNE and Hyper-K combine underground construction, accelerator upgrades and different detector technologies to investigate neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts.
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Dainty plans phased rice-meal production in Ohio
Dainty Foods plans a 250,000-square-foot Ohio operation, with an initial $85 million investment and its first phase scheduled for early 2027.
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EarthCARE launches to study clouds and atmospheric radiation
EarthCARE has launched from California to measure clouds, aerosols and radiation. Its four instruments will undergo commissioning before returning science data.
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Einstein Probe tracks a rare binary-star X-ray flare
Einstein Probe tracked an unusual X-ray flare in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with follow-up telescopes helping scientists investigate a rare binary-star system.
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Electra’s Colorado route from iron plates to customer trials
Electra’s Colorado demonstration brings together iron qualification, advance purchases and environmental credits, alongside several forms of scale-up funding.
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Eos builds a manufacturing route for zinc battery storage
Eos combines factory automation, staged financing and orders to expand zinc battery production in Pennsylvania, with further sites and controls planned.
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Europa Clipper: the hardware and organisation behind a long-distance mission
Europa Clipper combines large solar arrays, protected electronics and nine instruments in a mission extending from development in 2015 to planned operations in 2034.
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FAST connects receiver development with observatory operations
FAST combines low-noise receivers, cable positioning and coordinated observing programmes to study faint radio signals and share telescope time.
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Fairlife scales production at its Webster dairy plant
Fairlife is ramping up its $650 million Webster dairy plant, with 380 new jobs created and full operation of its three production lines projected later in 2026.
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Fehmarnbelt moves tunnel construction from factory to seabed
Concrete production, flotation basins and precision immersion shape the Fehmarnbelt tunnel between Denmark and Germany.
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Ferrero expands Brantford confectionery production
Ferrero’s C$445 million Brantford expansion will add production for Nutella Biscuits and Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares.
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From electrons to experiments: the engineering behind HEPS
HEPS connects electron acceleration, vacuum engineering, radio-frequency systems and experimental beamlines in a staged commissioning programme.
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GSK plans an Upper Merion biologics manufacturing hub
GSK plans production, research and quality-control facilities in Upper Merion, with construction and employment targets set out for the Pennsylvania expansion.
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Geropharm targets three additional export markets in 2025
Geropharm aims to enter three more export markets in 2025, alongside insulin partnerships and ongoing registration work with its partners in Cuba and Venezuela.
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Golrang moves Astrakhan detergent production to 2027 as investment reaches RUB 1.25 billion
Golrang’s Roza factory in Astrakhan aims for production in 2027, with RUB 1.25 billion invested and 44 jobs created as construction continues in the Lotos zone.
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HIAF’s heavy-ion accelerator: cavities, beam diagnostics and commissioning
HIAF combines superconducting acceleration, large-aperture magnets and storage-ring diagnostics, with dated commissioning milestones extending into 2026.
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Ikon Tyres lifts Vsevolozhsk utilisation above half of capacity
Ikon Tyres’ Vsevolozhsk factory runs above half capacity and forecasts record domestic shipments. A development team adds new sizes to the factory’s tyre range.
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Indonesia plans a national coffee identity at Trade Expo 2026
Indonesia plans a national coffee identity at Trade Expo 2026, combining buyer promotion with a dedicated coffee area and ambitions for more value-added exports
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Inland Rail’s interrupted freight corridor
Construction continues south of Parkes as northern funding cuts unsettle businesses and landowners.
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Inside Bosch’s Roseville conversion to silicon carbide
Bosch’s Roseville project combines an existing wafer fab, new silicon-carbide equipment and workforce training as sample production begins in California.
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Inside HALF: engineering Hefei’s new synchrotron light source
HALF’s first injector beam marks one stage in a project linking precision magnets, beam control, X-ray optics and a planned research facility in Hefei.
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Inside Hera: engineering a three-spacecraft asteroid survey
Hera combines a main spacecraft, two CubeSats and specialised instruments to examine the aftermath of an asteroid-deflection test.
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Inside IceCube, the Antarctic observatory behind Halzen’s Nobel
IceCube combines deep-ice sensors, precision calibration and continuous data operations to study cosmic neutrinos and their distant sources.
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Inside SPHEREx: building an infrared survey of the whole sky
SPHEREx combines cold optics, spectral filters and a public data pipeline to map the sky, with early results extending from interstellar ice to brown dwarfs.
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Inside the ASML–imec High NA EUV laboratory
The Veldhoven lab opened access to High NA EUV. Its optics, materials and electrical tests trace the development of a new lithography process.
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Inside the CSNS upgrade: proton beams, neutron instruments and materials research
The Dongguan neutron source combines accelerator upgrades, new instruments and user experiments, with measured beam milestones distinct from its 500 kW target.
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JUNO turns an underground detector into a precision measurement system
Inside JUNO: acrylic construction, scintillator purification, sensor protection and calibration behind its first neutrino measurements.
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Key Point plans a RUB 4 billion data centre in Rostov Region
Key Point proposes an 800–1,000-rack Rostov Region data centre, alongside plans for programmable-controller production.
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LHAASO’s cosmic-ray search: air showers, black-hole jets and particle spectra
LHAASO combines a high-altitude detector array with gamma-ray surveys and particle measurements to investigate extreme accelerators and the cosmic-ray knee.
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LIGO engineering: quiet mirrors and clearer black-hole signals
LIGO combines optical upgrades, noise control and calibration to measure black-hole mergers. Open data and simulations support the observations.
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Magic states and the machinery of reliable quantum operations
Trapped-ion experiments connect magic states with error detection, logical operations, qubit transport and measurement-driven software.
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Mars networks: relays, lasers and local data
Mars missions use coordinated radio relays. Laser tests and orbital computing proposals show how future links could carry and store more data.
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Marson Foods opens Hazelwood waffle production facility
The Missouri bakery adds automated production, frozen storage and product-development space for school and foodservice customers.
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Mizkan America plans $156 million Owensboro expansion
Mizkan America plans additional space, equipment and technology at its Kentucky plant, with 44 jobs projected and board approval still ahead.
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NISAR’s dual-radar view of a changing Earth
NISAR pairs US and Indian radar systems to track land, ice and ecosystems, with a shared reflector, repeat observations and an open data programme.
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Naturovo launches LimoNat bottling in Lukhovitsy
Naturovo has started bottling juice-based soft drinks in Lukhovitsy, with a second line planned and investment exceeding RUB300 million.
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Novatek begins pilot production at North Chaselskoye
Novatek has started pilot production at North Chaselskoye, adding a gas condensate field to its pipeline-gas development programme.
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Novelis restarts Oswego cold mill after second major fire
Novelis resumed cold rolling and heat treatment at Oswego after a second major fire while Ford planned extra truck output and alternative aluminum supply routes
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Omega Sea presents its Magadan fish-oil refining operation
Omega Sea showcased its Magadan processing plant during a presidential visit, alongside its refining and re-esterified triglyceride production lines.
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Omsky Kauchuk adopts domestic propylene catalysts while zeolite trials continue
Omsky Kauchuk has switched propylene production to domestic adsorbents and catalysts, while separate zeolite catalyst trials with a research institute continue.
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Patriot Pickle opens a new production facility in Garland
Patriot Pickle has opened a Garland, Texas, production facility to expand fresh-pickle capacity and serve foodservice and grocery customers.
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Phobos and Deimos: testing moon origins with MMX
Competing models explain Mars’ small moons. MMX connects orbital instruments, rover measurements and carefully handled samples to tests on Earth.
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Primo Brands opens Mountain Valley production facility in Hot Springs
A new Arkansas facility adds three production lines and warehouse space for Mountain Valley spring water, following Primo Brands’ formation in 2024.
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Proba-3 turns precision formation flight into a solar instrument
Proba-3 combines two spacecraft, precise positioning and complementary instruments to study the solar corona.
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Roman’s survey observatory: the engineering behind a wider cosmic view
NASA’s Roman telescope combines a wide-field camera, a coronagraph demonstration and repeated sky surveys. Its launch opens a commissioning phase before the planned science programme.
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Rosatom sets out 2029 first-stage plan for Glazov magnets
Rosatom plans equipment installation in 2028 and a 500-tonne first stage in Glazov in 2029, with rare-earth supplies tied to a new Solikamsk separation project.
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Rubin Observatory: the engineering behind its first sky images
Rubin’s first images followed mirror coating, camera transport and on-sky tests. Its data releases separate early engineering work from the planned survey.
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Russia’s ITER contribution: components, testing and integration
Russia’s ITER participation spans coil manufacturing, plasma-heating equipment and test facilities, alongside a continuing European debate over cooperation.
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SCHOTT Pharma plans a syringe manufacturing site in Wilson
A proposed $371 million project in North Carolina would add glass and polymer syringe capacity, with operations targeted for 2027.
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