Hungary: Masterplast recorded sales of €101m in the first half of 2026, up by 53% year-on-year. The producer partly attributed the growth to a 17% increase in sales of insulation. In Hungary, turnover more than doubled to €53.2m. The group turned a profit after tax of €5.2m, up from a loss of €4.6m in the first half of 2025.

The producer noted that existing inventories and a broad raw material supplier base protected its profitability against raw material price rises driven by the on-going Iran war.

India: Sarda Energy & Minerals subsidiary Sarda Metals & Alloys approved a US$31.4m capital expenditure plan on 25 July 2026 to expand its Vizianagaram mineral wool plant in Andhra Pradesh. The investment will also cover the construction of a new waste heat recovery (WHR) plant at the plant.

Spain: Rockwool Peninsular plans to invest €60m to decarbonise production at its Caparroso stone wool insulation plant in Navarre by 2028. The upgrade centres on a €48.8m replacement of the plant's furnace with electric burners. It will receive €18m of Spanish government Strategic Project for Economic Recovery and Transformation funding. The project will reduce the plant's CO₂ emissions by 74%, to 13,300t CO₂-equivalent/yr. It also includes a hybrid wind and solar power plant expansion to generate 24GWh/yr for use at the plant. The Navarre government designated the project of ‘chartered region interest’ on 29 July 2026, approximately halving administrative procedural timeframes.

UK: Flintshire County Council has approved an application for Knauf Insulation to remediate 17.7 hectares of land at Deeside Industrial Park in Flintshire, Wales. The company is awaiting permission to build its planned €212m Shotton stone wool insulation plant at the site on the English border, 20km from the Port of Liverpool on Merseyside. Local press has reported that the site formerly hosted a Tata Steel metallurgical complex and is now ‘mostly scrubland.’