Romania: Knauf Insulation Romania has officially inaugurated its new €140m, 75,000t/yr Târnăveni glass mineral wool insulation plant in Mureș County. Economedia News has reported that the plant originally entered operation earlier in 2025, but halted operations for two months in mid-2025 due to disruptions to the local water supply. These were the result of flooding in a nearby salt mine.

The Târnăveni plant serves customers in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine. A government grant covered €18m of the cost of the plant.

Angella Ganinger, the German ambassador to Romania, praised the plant as the fifth German investment in Romania inaugurated in the four months since the start of July 2025.

Norway: BEWI has launched GreenLine Super expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation, made using 100% recycled grey EPS as a feedstock. The product offers 52% lower CO₂ emissions than comparable insulation made with virgin EPS, while maintaining the same technical properties and performance. BEWI Circular collects and recycles 40,000t/yr of used EPS for the production of GreenLine Super insulation.

Grey EPS is EPS produced using graphene to increase its R-value.

Italy: Software supplier Relatech has partnered with AIT Europa Engineering to a develop a system to recycle steelworks dust into commercially useful mineral wool. Relatech’s role will be to develop plant digital twins for use in the system.

PUBT News has reported that the project, called Ares, has funding from the Start 4.0 technical excellence centre under Italy’s recover and resilience plan.

Europe: Germany-based BASF has launched Cavipor clay foam insulation in Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and the UK. The insulation consists of three water-based components which can be foamed in air at the point of installation. The resulting insulation is non-flammable, water-repellent and vapour-permeable, according to the producer. The product is approved for use in floors and roofs. 2000 houses are reportedly already insulated with Cavipor.

BASF Monomers President Ramkumar Dhruva said "By establishing clay foam in the insulation market, we are setting a new benchmark for energy-efficient renovation solutions.”